US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Sept. 23 for "Percutaneous clip for repairing a heart valve" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,639, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Percutaneous clip for repairing a heart valve" was invented by Cristobal R. Hernandez (Santa Ana, Calif.), Gregory Bak-Boychuk (San Clemente, Calif.) and Emil Karapetian (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Valve repair systems and clips attachable to one or more leaflets of a heart valve. The systems and clips can have center member, first and second clipping arms, and a tubular member. The first and second clipping arms are movable between an open position and a closed position. The clipping arms including respective first en...