ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,963, issued on July 28, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Prosthetic heart valve having commissure support element" was invented by David Maimon (Atlit, Israel), Michael Bukin (Pardes Hanna, Israel), Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel), Noam Nir (Pardes-Hanna, Israel), Ziv Yohanan (Kfar Hahoresh, Israel), Amir Keret (Tirat Hacarmel, Israel) and Elena Sherman (Pardes Hana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve includes an annular frame including a plurality of angled strut members that is radially collapsible to a collapsed configuration and radially expandable to an expanded con...