US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on July 28 for "Flexible shunt implants" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,266, issued on July 28, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Flexible shunt implants" was invented by Daniel James Murray (Orange, Calif.), Eric Jason Noda (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Linda Thai (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Jonathan Andrew Lam (Anaheim Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system comprises a catheter configured to be delivered through a blood flow pathway of a heart and an implant configured to maintain an opening in a tissue wall to allow blood flow through the opening and into the blood flow pathway and be delivered via the catheter. The implant is at least partially ...