US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on July 28 for "System for anchoring a prosthetic valve to a native heart valve" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,965, issued on July 28, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"System for anchoring a prosthetic valve to a native heart valve" was invented by Darshin S. Patel (Lake Forest, Calif.), Boaz Manash (Givat Ada, Israel), Tri D. Tran (Fountain Valley, Calif.), Ofir Witzman (Harish, Israel), Yoav Rozen (Binyamina, Israel), Alexander J. Siegel (Irvine, Calif.) and David M. Taylor (Lake Forest, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for anchoring a prosthetic valve to a native valve of a heart. The system includes a steerable catheter, a low friction sleeve, and an anchoring device. The steerable ca...