US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Feb. 17 for "Sealing element for prosthetic heart valve" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,336, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Sealing element for prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel), Giolnara Pinhas (Hadera, Israel), Liraz Marom (Olesh, Israel), Elena Sherman (Pardes Hana, Israel), Noam Mizrahi (Irvine, Calif.), Delfin Rafael Ruiz (Irvine, Calif.), Sandip Vasant Pawar (Irvine, Calif.) and Liron Tayeb (Peduel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable prosthetic valve that is radially collapsible to a collapsed configuration and radially expandable to an expanded configuration includes an annular frame having an inflow e...