US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on March 11 for "Deployment tools and methods for delivering a device to a native heart valve" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,942, issued on March 11, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Deployment tools and methods for delivering a device to a native heart valve" was invented by Alexander J Siegel (Irvine, Calif.), Nicolas Schleiger (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Gregory Scott Tyler II (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible delivery catheter can be used to deploy valve repair and replacement devices at an implant site for the repair or replacement of poorly functioning native heart valves. Such a catheter can include a flexible tube having a plurality of links. A control wire can be connected to the plurality of...