US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Feb. 10 for "Guide wire apparatuses and methods" (California, Tennessee, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,222, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Guide wire apparatuses and methods" was invented by Alexander H. Cooper (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Jeremy Brent Ratz (Winchester, Mass.), Kevin M. Stewart (Powell, Tenn.), David Robert Landon (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Garrett Dallas Johnson (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Harish Manickam Srinimukesh (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Deena Jamal Malaeb (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Guide wire apparatuses and methods. Guide wires may be utilized for guiding a delivery apparatus, for example a transcatheter mitral valve delivery apparatus to replace a na...