ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,011, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Replacement heart valve prosthesis" was invented by Matthew A. Peterson (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Seung-Beom Yi (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Siddharth Vad (Irvine, Calif.), Travis Zenyo Oba (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Lauren R. Freschauf (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Amanda French (San Francisco), Yaron Keidar (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Yuanlong Du (Irvine, Calif.), Gregory Bak-Boychuk (San Clemente, Calif.), Kevin M. Golemo (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Alexander H. Cooper (Costa Mesa, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthesis can be configured to grasp intralumen...