US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Dec. 23 for "Leaflet attachment configurations to the frames of prosthetic valves" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,275, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Leaflet attachment configurations to the frames of prosthetic valves" was invented by Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel), Nikolai Gurovich (Hadera, Israel), Elena Sherman (Pardes Hana, Israel) and Ziv Yohanan (Kfar Hahoresh, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to implantable prosthetic devices, such as prosthetic heart valves, and to attachment configurations and methods of attaching soft components, such as leaflets or skirts, to frames of such prosthetic valves."

The patent was filed on Jan. 10, 2023, under App...