US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on July 7 for "Docking station for prosthetic implant" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,972, issued on July 7, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Docking station for prosthetic implant" was invented by Nikolai Gurovich (Hadera, Israel), Boaz Manash (Givat Ada, Israel), Adi Carmi (Ganei Tikva, Israel), Eran Goldberg (Nesher, Israel) and Khen Perlmutter (Binyamina, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking station for a prosthetic heart valve includes a radially expandable and collapsible frame with a first plurality of struts, an inflow end portion, an outflow end portion, and a longitudinal axis. A sealing member is disposed on the outflow end portion and configured to form a seal between...