US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on June 30 for "Tapered prosthetic heart valves with valvular structures forming tapered flow channels" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,458, issued on June 30, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Tapered prosthetic heart valves with valvular structures forming tapered flow channels" was invented by Anatoly Dvorsky (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve has a frame and a valvular structure coupled thereto. The valvular structure has multiple leaflets, with paired tabs from the leaflets forming commissure tab assemblies that couple the valvular structure to the frame. The frame is tapered with its inflow end diameter being smaller than its outflow end diameter. The valvular structure is constructed such that a f...