US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on July 15 for "Prosthetic heart valve with atrial sealing member" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,453, issued on July 15, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prosthetic heart valve with atrial sealing member" was invented by Stephen C. Geist (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Robert C. Taft (Orange, Calif.), Travis Zenyo Oba (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Sam Sok (Santa Ana, Calif.), Matthew A. Peterson (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Kevin M. Golemo (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Mark Chau (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Seung-Beom Yi (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for heart valve replacement comprises forming an incision in a wall of a ventricle of a heart and inserting a delivery apparatus and a prosthetic heart...