ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,497, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences AG (Nyon, Switzerland).
"Method of implanting valve prosthesis having atrial anchoring" was invented by Avraham Zakay (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), David Mishaly (Shoham, Israel), Dan Rottenberg (Haifa, Israel) and David Alon (Zichron Yaacov, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a native mitral valve without open-heart surgery is disclosed. An expandable prosthesis includes an anchoring portion and an occluding member coupled to the anchoring portion. The prosthesis is loaded into a distal end portion of a delivery catheter and is advanced through a femoral ...