ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,551, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Telescoping prosthetic valve and delivery system" was invented by Joshua C. Haarer (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Cody L. Hartman (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Roy Manygoats Jr. (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Ryan S. Titone (Flagstaff, Ariz.) and Eric M. Tittelbaugh (Flagstaff, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic implant transitionable between a delivery configuration and a deployed configuration in-situ, the prosthetic implant includes a first frame subcomponent and a second frame subcomponent. The first frame subcomponent and the second frame subcomponent each incl...