US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on June 16 for "Prosthetic heart valves with h-shaped commissure windows and methods for assembly thereof" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,668, issued on June 16, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prosthetic heart valves with h-shaped commissure windows and methods for assembly thereof" was invented by Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel) and Itay Avinathan (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assembly methods for installing a valvular structure to an expandable annular frame of a prosthetic heart valve are described. The valvular structure has a multiple leaflets, each with a pair of tabs. Each tab of the leaflet has upper and lower portions. Commissures formed by paired tabs of adjacent leaflets are coupled to corresponding co...