US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on June 23 for "Sound and vibration sensors for estimating prosthetic valve diameter during expansion" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,219, issued on June 23, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Sound and vibration sensors for estimating prosthetic valve diameter during expansion" was invented by Joseph Mordechai Leichner (Netanya, Israel), Anatoly Dvorsky (Haifa, Israel) and Michal Aliza Ruchelsman (Zichron-Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to systems, assemblies and methods for estimating prosthetic valve expansion diameter, and in particular, for system and assemblies equipped with at least one sound or vibration sensor configured to provide real-time estimate of prosthetic valve expansion diamet...