US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Sept. 9 for "Method of reducing left atrial pressure" (California, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,907, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method of reducing left atrial pressure" was invented by Michael G Valdez (Riverside, Calif.), Cristobal R. Hernandez (Santa Ana, Calif.), Eric Jason Noda (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Hien T. Nguyen (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Trizzie Trang Dang (Santa Ana, Calif.), Lillian Grace Myers (Prairie Village, Kan.), Linda Thai (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Daniel James Murray (Orange, Calif.) and Don Huy Tran (Westminster, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood flow pathway is formed between a left atrium and a coronary sinus for relieving elevated lef...