ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,222, issued on June 23, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Expansion and locking assemblies with intertwined wires" was invented by Noam Nir (Pardes-Hanna, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed toward prosthetic heart valves that include an expandable frame provided with expansion and locking assemblies, which can be kept in a locked state by a twist formed along a portion of a wire of each expansion and locking assemblies. The present invention is further directed toward delivery assemblies that include actuation assemblies configured to actuate the expansion and locking a...