US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on March 3 for "Valves and delivery apparatuses equipped with optic fiber sensors" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,494, issued on March 3, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Valves and delivery apparatuses equipped with optic fiber sensors" was invented by Anatoly Dvorsky (Haifa, Israel) and Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for measuring expansion diameter, radial force exerted against surrounding tissue, and pressure recovery across prosthetic heart valves, during valve implantation procedures."

The patent was filed on April 29, 2022, under Application No. 17/732,707.

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