Patent ID: 7758637

Claim:
A method for advancing an operational device into a left ventricle of a heart to contact ventricular wall tissue comprising: advancing an operational device into a left ventricle at or adjacent to an intersection of a mitral valve leaflet and a ventricular wall, so that the distal end of the operational device is entirely within the ventricle; urging a length of the distal end of the operational device against the ventricular wall tissue along a longitudinal axis of the operational device, at or adjacent to the intersection of a mitral valve leaflet and a ventricular wall; and delivering a plurality of slidably coupled anchors through the operational device transverse to the longitudinal axis of the device and into the ventricular wall tissue at or adjacent to the intersection of a mitral valve leaflet and a ventricular wall, the anchors being directly coupled to one another by a tether, and wherein of each anchor is secured to the ventricular wall tissue without penetrating into tissue of a left atrium.