BioCardia Announces Issuance of Two Patents Related to Technology That Guides Interventional Therapies

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BioCardia, Inc. [Nasdaq: BCDA], a developer of cellular and cell-derived therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, today announced the issuance of two patent grants related to enabling technologies for delivery of its investigational autologous and allogeneic cell therapies. The United States Patent Office issued BioCardia Patent Number 11,716,859, entitled “Multi-Directional Steerable Catheter,” with a patent term that will expire in 2035. The patent claims a fundamental design for steerable introducer sheaths, such as those used for BioCardia’s autologous and allogeneic cell therapy procedures, and for transseptal procedures for the…