ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,833, issued on May 13, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Method of assembling a prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel), Elena Sherman (Pardes Hana, Israel) and Noam Nir (Pardes-Hanna, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assembling a prosthetic heart valve comprises securing a suture loop having at least first and second windings to an outflow edge portion of an inner skirt. The first and second windings are arranged in a repeating pattern of figure-eight shape curves and each winding has a plurality of first sections attached to the outflow edge portion...