US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Dec. 16 for "Delivery system for prosthetic heart valve" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,190, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Delivery system for prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Kevin D. Rupp (Irvine, Calif.), Tung T. Le (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Thanh Huy Le (Oceanside, Calif.), Brian C. Gray (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.), Alejandro J. Froimovich Rosenberg (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), Jeff Lindstrom (Coto de Caza, Calif.), Kim D. Nguyen (Irvine, Calif.) and Sonny Tran (Westminster, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery apparatus for implanting a radially compressible and expandable prosthetic heart valve in a native heart valve of the heart includes a handle portion ...