US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Oct. 7 for "System for replacing a native valve of the heart" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,743, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"System for replacing a native valve of the heart" was invented by Mark Chau (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Marlowe E. Patterson (Orange, Calif.), Seung-Beom Yi (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Stephen C. Geist (Bend, Ore.) and Travis Zenyo Oba (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for replacing a native valve of the heart includes a delivery apparatus having a sheath and a prosthetic valve. The prosthetic valve includes a frame having an annular main body, a plurality of ventricular anchors attached to the main body, an atrial anchor attached ...