US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on April 1 for "Method for delivering a prosthetic heart valve" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,085, issued on April 1, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method for delivering a prosthetic heart valve" was invented by David M. Taylor (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of implanting a balloon expandable prosthetic valve within a native aortic valve includes introducing a delivery system into a femoral artery of a patient, the delivery system comprising an outer sleeve and a shaft extending through a lumen of the outer sleeve. A distal end portion of the shaft is positioned distal to a distal end of a steerable distal end portion of the outer sleeve. A prosthetic valve is crim...