US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on July 15 for "Devices and methods for crimping prosthetic implants" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,456, issued on July 15, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for crimping prosthetic implants" was invented by Ilan Tamir (Irvine, Calif.), Vipul P. Rajpara (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Jonathan Roth (Pardes-Hanna Karkur, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a holder device and a non-self-expandable prosthetic heart valve. The prosthetic heart valve can be radially compressed from an expanded configuration to a compressed configuration. The holder device is configured to hold the prosthetic heart valve in the expanded configuration and to allow the prosthetic heart valve...