ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,851, issued on May 27, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Method for deploying a prosthetic heart valve" was invented by David M. Taylor (Lake Forest, Calif.), Philippe Marchand (Munich), Larry L. Wood (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Robert Bowes (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for deploying an expandable prosthetic heart valve in a patient includes introducing a guidewire into a patient and advancing the guidewire through a vasculature of a patient to a deployment site. A distal end portion of a delivery apparatus and the prosthetic heart valve mounted in a radially compressed c...