US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Nov. 4 for "Laminated sealing member for prosthetic heart valve" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,213, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Laminated sealing member for prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Itai Pelled (Ramat-Hasharon, Israel), Elena Sherman (Pardes Hana, Israel), Eran Goldberg (Nesher, Israel), Kevin D. Rupp (Irvine, Calif.) and Noam Nir (Pardes-Hanna, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve has a radially expandable and collapsible annular frame, the frame having an inflow end and an outflow end and defining a longitudinal axis along a lumen of the prosthetic heart valve when it is in the expanded configuration. A leaflet structure is positioned...