US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on July 21 for "Expandable sheath for introducing an endovascular delivery device into a body" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,636, issued on July 21, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Expandable sheath for introducing an endovascular delivery device into a body" was invented by Maxwell Harrison Fine (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Ilan Tamir (Irvine, Calif.), Jeong Soo Lee (Diamond Bar, Calif.), Sonny Tran (Westminster, Calif.), Leah Paige Gaffney (Orange, Calif.), Erik Bulman (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Nasser William Saleh (Stockton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of an expandable sheath can be used in conjunction with a catheter assembly to introduce a prosthetic device, such as a heart valve, into a patient. Such examples...