ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,211, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Covered prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Evan T. Schwartz (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Sean Chow (Tustin, Calif.), Sandip Vasant Pawar (Irvine, Calif.), Darshin S. Patel (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Chambory Chhe (Irvine, Calif.), Arpit Laddha (Santa Ana, Calif.), Ngoc Huong Thi Nguyen (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Waina Michelle Chu (Tustin, Calif.), Yuanlong Du (Irvine, Calif.), Michael Bukin (Pardes Hanna, Israel), Boaz Manash (Givat Ada, Israel), Sara Tzadok (Or-Akiva, Israel) and Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office:...