US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Aug. 26 for "Methods of implanting a prosthetic heart valve within another" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,846, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Methods of implanting a prosthetic heart valve within another" was invented by Mark A. Konno (Laguna Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a cardiac implant, and associated methods therefore, configured to repair and/or replace a native heart valve, and having a support frame configured to be reshaped into an expanded/changed form in order to receive and/or support an expandable prosthetic heart valve therein. The implant may be configured to have a generally rigid and/or expansion-resistant configuration when initially impla...