US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Aug. 11 for "Leaflet attachment in prosthetic heart valves using buckle commissure clamps" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,548, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Leaflet attachment in prosthetic heart valves using buckle commissure clamps" was invented by Noam Nir (Pardes-Hanna, Israel) and Michael Bukin (Pardes Hanna, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buckle commissure clamp can be used to attach leaflets of a valvular structure to a frame of a prosthetic heart valve. Tabs of adjacent leaflets can be assembled to the buckle commissure clamp by passing each leaflet through one or more gaps of the buckle commissure clamp. Each leaflet tab can be wrapped around portions of the buckle commissure clamp. On...