US Patent Issued to Wolf Cardio on May 27 for "Implantable endovascular, low profile intracardiac left atrial restraining devices for low energy atrial cardioversion, pacing and sensing" (Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,165, issued on May 27, was assigned to Wolf Cardio LLC (Houston).

"Implantable endovascular, low profile intracardiac left atrial restraining devices for low energy atrial cardioversion, pacing and sensing" was invented by Randall K. Wolf (Houston) and Paul Spence (Aventura, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various configurations of electrodes with accompanying extensions and wires configured to be attached at or near the left atrium of a heart to allow the device to be held snug against the endocardium and out of the blood flow for low energy defibrillation of the atria in response to atrial fibrillation or other at...