US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Sept. 23 for "Prosthetic valved conduits with mechanically coupled leaflets" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,740, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prosthetic valved conduits with mechanically coupled leaflets" was invented by Dustin V. Dienno (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Michael G. Dunham (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Cody L. Hartman (Flagstaff, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described embodiments are directed toward centrally-opening leaflet prosthetic valve devices having a leaflet frame and a non-sewn mechanically coupled leaflet. The described leaflet frames have projections that are configured to couple with apertures located within the leaflet attachment region of a leaflet. Some embodiments are...