US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Dec. 9 for "Prosthetic heart valve with collapsible holder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,071, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prosthetic heart valve with collapsible holder" was invented by Ankita Bordoloi Gurunath (Irvine, Calif.), Derrick Johnson (Orange, Calif.), Brian S. Conklin (Orange, Calif.) and Myron Howanec Jr. (Corona, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve holder system includes a prosthetic heart valve having a base at an inflow end, a plurality of commissure posts extending from the base toward an outflow end, and valve leaflets secured to the commissure posts to permit flow through the heart valve. A deflector is provided at the outflow...