US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences CardiAQ on July 22 for "Actively controllable stent, stent graft, heart valve and method of controlling same" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,596, issued on July 22, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences CardiAQ LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Actively controllable stent, stent graft, heart valve and method of controlling same" was invented by Richard George Cartledge (Boca Raton, Fla.), Kevin W. Smith (Coral Gables, Fla.), Thomas O. Bales Jr. (Miami), Derek Dee Deville (Coral Gables, Fla.), Korey Kline (Miami), Max Pierre Mendez (Miami), Matthew A. Palmer (Miami), Michael Walter Kirk (Miami), Carlos Rivera (Cooper City, Fla.), Eric Petersen (Homestead, Fla.) and M. Sean McBrayer (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve can comprise a stent frame radially movab...