US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Aug. 4 for "Assemblies of an expandable prosthetic heart valve within an annuloplasty ring" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,208, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Assemblies of an expandable prosthetic heart valve within an annuloplasty ring" was invented by Mark A. Konno (Laguna Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is a cardiac implant, and associated methods therefore, configured to repair and/or replace a native heart valve, and having a support frame configured to be reshaped into an expanded/changed form in order to receive and/or support an expandable prosthetic heart valve therein. The implant may be configured to have a generally rigid and/or expansion-resistant configuration when ...