ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,129, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Cardiac valve replacement" was invented by David Alon (Zichron Yaacov, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for use at an annulus of a valve of a heart of a subject comprises an implant and an implant-positioning device. The implant comprises (i) a wire; (ii) multiple anchors, slidably mounted in series along the wire, each of the anchors having: a slot through which the wire is threaded, and a pointy front end; and (iii) multiple tubes, the wire being threaded through each of the tubes such that the multiple tubes are slidably mounted on ...