US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on July 15 for "Valve diameter and force monitoring of a prosthetic heart valve" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,457, issued on July 15, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Valve diameter and force monitoring of a prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Elazar Levi Schwarcz (Netanya, Israel), Oren Cohen (Kadima, Israel), Tomer Saar (Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel), Yair A. Neumann (Moshav Sede Varburg, Israel) and Ofir Witzman (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery apparatus including a measurement device to monitor the real-time diameter of a prosthetic heart valve can include a handle, at least one first actuator extending from the handle and being configured to apply a distally directed force to a...