US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Feb. 3 for "Flex sensors for measuring real-time valve diameter during procedure" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,212, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Flex sensors for measuring real-time valve diameter during procedure" was invented by Elazar Levi Schwarcz (Netanya, Israel), Oren Cohen (Kadima, Israel), Anatoly Dvorsky (Haifa, Israel) and Natanel Simcha Sirote (Zikhron Ya'akov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery assembly constituted of: a prosthetic valve comprising a plurality of intersecting struts, and a delivery apparatus comprising: a handle; a delivery shaft extending distally from the handle; and a flex sensing assembly, comprising: at least one flex sensor coupled to at least ...