US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on April 14 for "Percutaneous mitral valve replacement device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,480, issued on April 14, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Percutaneous mitral valve replacement device" was invented by Travis Zenyo Oba (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Seung-Beom Yi (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Lauren R. Freschauf (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Juan Valencia (Fullerton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve includes an outer frame, a cover, an inner frame, and a valve structure. The outer frame includes a main body and an atrial flange. The main body includes a plurality of struts forming a plurality of circumferential rows of cells, a plurality of rows of barbs extending from ...