US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Sept. 23 for "Localized fusion of native leaflets using activated adhesive" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,622, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Localized fusion of native leaflets using activated adhesive" was invented by Hengchu Cao (Irvine, Calif.), Shih-Hwa Shen (Irvine, Calif.), Holly Kung Jung Hsu (Irvine, Calif.) and Krystal Ya-Fong Lai (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a delivery device, kit, system, method, etc. for localized fusion of leaflets of a tissue valve, for example, a native heart valve, using an adhesive. The delivery device can have one or more capture features for capturing separate leaflets, for example, the anterior and posterior mitral lea...