US Patent Issued to The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Oct. 21 for "Apparatus and method for replacing a diseased cardiac valve" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,013, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland) and EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for replacing a diseased cardiac valve" was invented by Jose Luis Navia (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Ji-Feng Chen (Lakewood, Ohio) and Qun Zhou (Lakewood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for replacing a native atrioventricular heart valve includes inserting a delivery catheter into the heart with a prosthetic apparatus retained in a compressed state inside of the delivery catheter. The prosthetic apparatus includes an annular anchoring member having a mesh structure made of...