US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on March 31 for "Apparatus and method for monitoring valve expansion" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,991, issued on March 31, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for monitoring valve expansion" was invented by Elazar Levi Schwarcz (Netanya, Israel), Oren Cohen (Kadima, Israel) and Ofir Witzman (Harish, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a prosthetic valve delivery apparatus are disclosed. The delivery apparatus can include an indicator arm changeable between a first configuration and a second configuration. The second configuration is different from the first configuration in location or shape of the indicator arm. The indicator arm can be configured to remain in the ...