US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences CardiAQ on April 29 for "Prosthesis for atraumatically grasping intralumenal tissue and methods of delivery" (California, Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,330, issued on April 29, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences CardiAQ LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prosthesis for atraumatically grasping intralumenal tissue and methods of delivery" was invented by J. Brent Ratz (Winchester, Mass.), Arshad Quadri (West Hartford, Conn.) and Luca Pesce (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthesis can comprise an expandable frame, a plurality of distal anchors and a plurality of proximal anchors. The anchors can extend outwardly from the frame. The frame can be configured to radially expand contract for deployment within a body cavity. The frame and anchors can have one of many differ...