US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on June 17 for "Heart valve docking devices and systems" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,641, issued on June 17, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Heart valve docking devices and systems" was invented by Darshin S. Patel (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Boaz Manash (Givat Ada, Israel), Khen Perlmutter (Binyamina, Israel), Eyal Leiba (N. Misgav, Israel), Yoav Rozen (Binyamina, Israel), Dinesh L. Sirimanne (Irvine, Calif.), Tri D. Tran (Fountain Valley, Calif.), Jocelyn Chau (Buena Park, Calif.), Noa Axelrod Manela (Netanya, Israel) and Zohar Kiblitski (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking device for docking a prosthetic valve at a native valve of a heart can include a coil compr...