ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,598, issued on July 22, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Mechanically expanding heart valve and delivery apparatus therefor" was invented by David Maimon (Atlit, Israel), Boaz Manash (Givat Ada, Israel), Eyal Leiba (N. Misgav, Israel), Ziv Yohanan (Kfar Hahoresh, Israel), Yair A. Neumann (Moshav Sede Varburg, Israel), Anatoly Dvorsky (Haifa, Israel), Jonathan Bar-Or (Jordan Valley, Israel), Oren Cohen (Kadima, Israel), Ofir Witzman (Harish, Israel), Liron Tayeb (Harish, Israel), Elazar Levi Schwarcz (Peduel, Israel), Noam Miller (Givatayim, Israel) and Tomer Saar (Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & T...