US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Sept. 30 for "Apparatus and method for monitoring valve expansion" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,019, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for monitoring valve expansion" was invented by Elazar Levi Schwarcz (Netanya, Israel), Oren Cohen (Kadima, Israel), Ofir Witzman (Kfar Saba, Israel), Yair A. Neumann (Moshav Sede Varburg, Israel), Noam Miller (Givatayim, Israel) and Ziv Yohanan (Kfar Hahoresh, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a prosthetic valve delivery apparatus are disclosed. The delivery apparatus includes a first portion configured to maintain a fixed spatial relationship relative to a first end of the prosthetic valve and a second por...