ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,815, issued on July 28, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Cardiac implant devices with integrated pressure sensing" was invented by Stanton J. Rowe (Newport Coast, Calif.), Arvin T. Chang (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Joseph Arthur Passman (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Scott Louis Pool (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Jinny Lee (Corona del Mar, Calif.), Viral Lalitmohan Gandhi (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Alison S. Curtis (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Gregory Bak-Boychuk (San Clemente, Calif.), Emil Karapetian (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Glen T. Rabito (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Cristobal R. Hernandez (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Off...