US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Oct. 14 for "Delivery system for aided replacement valve recapture and repositioning post-deployment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,335, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Delivery system for aided replacement valve recapture and repositioning post-deployment" was invented by Harish Manickam Srinimukesh (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Travis Zenyo Oba (Yorba Linda, Calif.), David Robert Landon (Huntington Beach, Calif.) and Glen T. Rabito (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of a delivery system which can be used to recapture and/or reposition a replacement valve, such as a replacement mitral valve, after initial deployment of the valve. Embodiments of the delivery system can invo...