US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on July 14 for "Methods of delivering a flexible annuloplasty ring" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,283, issued on July 14, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Methods of delivering a flexible annuloplasty ring" was invented by John F. Migliazza (Belmont Shores, Calif.), Bob Crockett (San Luis Obispo, Calif.) and Tim Abram (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of delivering and using an annuloplasty ring to reshape a valve annulus are disclosed. The methods include obtaining an annuloplasty ring having an elastic inner core member. The elastic inner core member can be defined by a multi-stranded braided cable. The inner core member has an unstressed closed or open ring shape and a first el...