US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Oct. 14 for "Methods for controlled heart valve delivery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,331, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Methods for controlled heart valve delivery" was invented by John J. Desrosiers (San Clemente, Calif.), Amanda Kristine Anderson White (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael R. Bialas (Lake Forest, Calif.), Gilbert Madrid (Dana Point, Calif.), Michael J. Popp (Irvine, Calif.), Thanh V. Nguyen (Irvine, Calif.), Jun Liu (Corona, Calif.), Asher L. Metchik (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.) and Darshin S. Patel (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic implant delivery assembly includes a prosthetic implant and a catheter. The prosthetic i...