BioCardia announces US Patent Office granted patent on Morph DNA

BioCardia announces that the United States Patent Office has granted Patent No: 12,036,371 titled “Method of Accessing the Left Atrium with a Multi-Directional Steerable Catheter,” with a patent term that will expire in 2035. The present invention relates to medical methods for transseptal access to the heart using steerable introducers based on the Company’s Morph DNA technology. This additional patent protection for BioCardia’s current and future products in this important existing market enhances shareholder value. “All of the biotherapeutic interventions we support for treatment of heart failure, refractory angina, and acute myocardial infarction going forward are expected to utilize this same introducer technology platform,” said Peter Altman, PhD, BioCardia’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “This is an elegant solution to a long-standing technical issue. The solution enhances the level of physician control in our procedures, and BioCardia is working to provide or partner this solution for the roughly five hundred thousand transseptal procedures performed in the United States each year, and for other vascular access markets that can benefit from the advantages our patented solution provides.”