US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Sept. 9 for "Prosthetic valve having a multi-part frame" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,031, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prosthetic valve having a multi-part frame" was invented by Mark Chau (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Marlowe E. Patterson (Orange, Calif.), Seung-Beom Yi (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Stephen C. Geist (Bend, Ore.) and Travis Zenyo Oba (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve includes a multi-part frame having a first annular body and an anchor component that includes a second annular body circumscribing the first annular body. The first annular body includes a plurality of struts arranged in a lattice pattern and defining a ...