ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,990, issued on March 31, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Delivery apparatus for a prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Oren Cohen (Kadima, Israel) and Ofir Witzman (Harish, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a delivery apparatus handle, such as for a mechanical heart valve frame can comprise an actuation knob with a toggle mechanism that can toggle the actuation knob from a first state in which the actuation knob is operable to cause the linear or rotational movement of multiple elements or sets of elements, such as tubes that are attached to, e.g., a mechanical heart valve fram...