US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on July 28 for "Delivery apparatus and methods for implanting prosthetic heart valves" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,968, issued on July 28, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Delivery apparatus and methods for implanting prosthetic heart valves" was invented by Oren Cohen (Kadima, Israel), Elazar Levi Schwarcz (Netanya, Israel), Denis Zhmakin (Haifa, Israel), Ofir Witzman (Harish, Israel), Noam Miller (Givatayim, Israel) and Eitan Atias (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery apparatus for implanting a prosthetic heart valve includes one or more shafts and a handle coupled to the one or more shafts. The handle comprises one or more knobs, one or more adjustment mechanisms, and/or one or more control me...