US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on March 25 for "Retaining mechanisms for prosthetic valves" (California, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,150, issued on March 25, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Retaining mechanisms for prosthetic valves" was invented by Christopher J. Olson (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Glen T. Rabito (Lake Forest, Calif.), Dustin P. Armer (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Minh T. Ma (Santa Ana, Calif.), Devin H. Marr (Westford, Mass.), Cheng-Tung Huang (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Hiroshi Okabe (Tustin, Calif.), Kevin M. Stewart (Powell, Tenn.), Alison S. Curtis (Colden, Colo.) and Philip P. Corso Jr. (Laguna Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prosthetic heart valve assemblies and methods, apparatus, and systems used to deliver a p...