US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Sept. 30 for "Prosthetic heart valve leaflet commissure assemblies and methods" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,013, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prosthetic heart valve leaflet commissure assemblies and methods" was invented by Michael Bukin (Pardes Hanna, Israel), Noam Nir (Pardes-Hanna, Israel), Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel), Ziv Yohanan (Kfar Hahoresh, Israel), Elena Sherman (Pardes Hana, Israel), Eran Goldberg (Nesher, Israel) and David Maimon (Atlit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve and associated methods for assembling a prosthetic heart valve including a plurality of leaflets is disclosed. As one example, a prosthetic heart valve includes a fram...