US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on July 22 for "Heart valve frame design with non-uniform struts" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,594, issued on July 22, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Heart valve frame design with non-uniform struts" was invented by Noam Nir (Pardes-Hanna, Israel), Elena Sherman (Pardes Hana, Israel), Michael Bukin (Pardes Hanna, Israel) and Tomer Saar (Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable prosthetic valve assembly, according to one embodiment, comprises a frame assembly including a plurality of struts and a prosthetic valve secured inside the frame assembly by sutures. The sutures are inward of the outermost surface of an outer periphery of the frame assembly. In certain embo...