ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,927, issued on March 17, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Prosthetic heart valves" was invented by Noam Nir (Pardes-Hanna, Israel), Michael Bukin (Pardes Hanna, Israel), Ziv Yohanan (Kfar Hahoresh, Israel), Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel) and Elena Sherman (Pardes Hana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for construction of prosthetic heart valves, particularly techniques for attachment of scalloped edges of valvular leaflets to struts of mechanical frames using sutures and/or other materials as intermediate coupling members. In some embodiments, the scalloped edges of ...