US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Dec. 23 for "Textiles and implantable medical devices using the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,274, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Textiles and implantable medical devices using the same" was invented by Sandip Vasant Pawar (Irvine, Calif.), Arpit Laddha (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Chambory Chhe (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 3-D honeycomb textile can include a textured yarn. The textile can exhibit a heat-shrinkage rate from about 10% to about 60%. The textile can be configured to reversibly change its dimensions under application of stress. Prosthetic valves can have the disclosed textiles as a sealing member. Additionally, prosthetic valves can the disclosed...