US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Nov. 4 for "Valve implant with integrated sensor and transmitter" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,490, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Valve implant with integrated sensor and transmitter" was invented by Salvador Marquez (Foothill Ranch, Calif.), Da-Yu Chang (Irvine, Calif.), Cindy Woo (Irvine, Calif.), Hao-Chung Yang (Tustin, Calif.), Lynn T. Dang (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Javier A. Sanguinetti (Irvine, Calif.), Alexander H. Siemons (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Yaron Keidar (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Virginia Qi Lin (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Brian S. Conklin (Orange, Calif.) and Donald E. Bobo Jr. (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensor-integrated prosthetic valves that can com...