US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on July 21 for "Belt for prosthetic heart valve" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,632, issued on July 21, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Belt for prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Tal Reich (Moledet, Israel), Noam Nir (Pardes-Hanna, Israel), Ziv Yohanan (Kfar Hahoresh, Israel), Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel) and Michael Bukin (Pardes Hanna, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt for an implantable prosthetic device can include an annular body including a plurality of alternating peaks and valleys and a plurality of frangible members extending between at least one of adjacent peaks and adjacent valleys. The annular body can be radially expandable from a radially co...