ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,329, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Heart valve docking coils and systems" was invented by Darshin S. Patel (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Boaz Manash (Givat Ada, Israel), Khen Perlmutter (Binyamina, Israel), Yoav Rozen (Binyamina, Israel), Dinesh L. Sirimanne (Irvine, Calif.), Zohar Kiblitski (Haifa, Israel) and Noa Axelrod Manela (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anchoring or docking devices configured to be positioned at a native valve of a human heart and to provide structural support for docking a prosthetic valve therein. The docking devices can have coiled structu...