ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,635, issued on July 21, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Delivery apparatus for mechanically expandable valve" was invented by Elazar Levi Schwarcz (Netanya, Israel), Oren Cohen (Kadima, Israel) and Eitan Atias (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly can include a prosthetic valve and a delivery apparatus having a handle and a plurality of actuator assemblies extending from the handle. The prosthetic valve can have a plurality of posts one or more of which are configured as actuators having an axially spaced first member and second member, and a threaded rod extending through first and...