US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on June 17 for "System and method for transaortic delivery of a prosthetic heart valve" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,640, issued on June 17, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"System and method for transaortic delivery of a prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Mark M. Dehdashtian (Irvine, Calif.) and Teodoro S. Jimenez (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system and method for delivering a prosthetic heart valve to the aortic valve annulus via a transaortic approach. The system includes a balloon catheter for delivering a balloon-expandable prosthetic heart valve through an introducer from an approach from outside the patient, through a minimally-invasive opening in the chest cavity through an...