US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on May 13 for "Systems and methods for delivering an implantable device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,584, issued on May 13, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for delivering an implantable device" was invented by Miles D. Alexander (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a ventricular partitioning device for implantation using a delivery system can include coupling the ventricular partitioning device to a delivery catheter, loading the ventricular partitioning device and a portion of the delivery catheter into a sleeve and creating a liquid-tight seal between a portion of the sleeve and the delivery catheter, coupling a distal end of the sleeve to a guid...