ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,334, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Delivery apparatus for a prosthetic valve" was invented by Kevin D. Rupp (Irvine, Calif.), Alyssa Joy Gross (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Jun Liu (Corona, Calif.), Hamid Rafi (Irvine, Calif.), Chambory Chhe (Irvine, Calif.), Uy D. Trinh (Garden Grove, Calif.) and Duc Hong Nguyen (Santa Ana, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery assembly comprises a delivery apparatus and a prosthetic valve releasably connected to a cord-retaining device of the delivery apparatus by a plurality of cords or tethers. The cords desirably have a multi-stranded c...