US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Aug. 11 for "Loading apparatus for loading a prosthetic heart valve into a delivery apparatus" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,552, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Loading apparatus for loading a prosthetic heart valve into a delivery apparatus" was invented by Eran Goldberg (Nesher, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A loading apparatus including an outer body, a guide tube, and an annular loading member is disclosed. As one example, the outer body includes an inner conical bore that narrows in diameter from a distal end to a proximal end portion of the outer body and the guide tube includes a distal portion arranged within the proximal end portion of the outer body and a proximal portion extending outward...