ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,747, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Commissure attachment for prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel), Noam Nir (Pardes-Hanna, Israel), Michael Bukin (Pardes Hanna, Israel), David Maimon (Atlit, Israel) and Haim Yushtein (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve includes an annular frame that is radially collapsible and radially expandable, a plurality of leaflets situated within the frame, each leaflet having opposing commissure tab portions on opposite sides of the leaflet, each commissure tab portion paired with an...