US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on May 13 for "Delivery apparatuses for medical device implants" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,834, issued on May 13, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Delivery apparatuses for medical device implants" was invented by David Maimon (Atlit, Israel) and Hernan Altman (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery apparatus for a medical device implant can include an outer catheter and a flexible delivery catheter. The outer catheter can have an axially extending shaft and a first lumen extending co-axially through the axially extending shaft. The flexible delivery catheter can have an elongate shaft having a flexible section extending along a distal portion of the elongate shaft, and t...