US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on July 28 for "Suture tension distribution" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,967, issued on July 28, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Suture tension distribution" was invented by Lynn T. Dang (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Emily Cheng Zhou (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Javier A. Sanguinetti (Irvine, Calif.) and Hao-Chung Yang (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tension-distribution device includes a rotationally-symmetric structure and two or more suture-engagement features associated with the rotationally-symmetric structure, the suture-engagement features being configured to receive one or more suture portions therein. The two or more suture-engagement features are evenly spa...