US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on March 25 for "Suture deployment of prosthetic heart valve" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,149, issued on March 25, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Suture deployment of prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Arvin T. Chang (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Yair A. Neumann (Moshav Sede Varburg, Israel), Gil Senesh (Adi, Israel), Hernan Altman (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Scott Louis Pool (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Hannah Gibson (San Diego), Amanda Kristine Anderson White (Mountain View, Calif.), Peter Phong Tran (Irvine, Calif.) and Ly Th Phan (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery apparatus for a medical device can include a handle, a shaft, a plurality of sleeves, and a suture. The shaft in...