US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Jan. 27 for "System and method for crimping and loading a prosthetic heart valve" (California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,233, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and method for crimping and loading a prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Harish Manickam Srinimukesh (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Kevin M. Stewart (Powell, Tenn.), Matthew Michael Becerra (Lake Forest, Calif.), Richard D. White (Costa Mesa, Calif.), David Robert Landon (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Jonathan Yeh (Brea, Calif.), Hieu Minh Luong (Westminster, Calif.), Deena Jamal Malaeb (San Ramon, Calif.), Parth Himanshu Parikh (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Christopher Aguayo (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loading assembly, can incl...