US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on June 23 for "Prosthetic valve holders with automatic deploying mechanisms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,224, issued on June 23, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prosthetic valve holders with automatic deploying mechanisms" was invented by Brian S. Conklin (Orange, Calif.) and Michael C. Murad (Lake Mathews, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve holder for delivering a prosthetic heart valve to an implant site is in various embodiments configured to reduce or eliminate the occurrence of suture looping or other damage to the prosthetic valve during implantation. The valve holder can be configured to deploy or actuate automatically when performing preparatory steps that are already familiar to practiti...