US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on May 27 for "Systems and methods for treating cardiac dysfunction" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,853, issued on May 27, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for treating cardiac dysfunction" was invented by Miles D. Alexander (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for treating cardiac dysfunction can include an expandable device for insertion into a heart, a foot configured to contact a portion of the heart, a support frame, and a membrane coupled to the support frame. The support frame can include a plurality of radially expandable struts each having a first free end configured to extend beyond the foot and a second end coupled to the foot. The plurality of radia...