ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,517, issued on March 24, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Sealing member for prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel), Ziv Yohanan (Kfar Hahoresh, Israel) and David Maimon (Atlit, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve can include a frame, a valve component, a sealing member, and a retaining member. The frame can be radially compressible and expandable between a radially-compressed configuration and a radially-expanded configuration. The valve component can be disposed within and coupled to the frame and have a plurality of leaflets. The seali...