US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on May 26 for "Methods for manufacturing resilient prosthetic surgical heart valves" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,149, issued on May 26, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Methods for manufacturing resilient prosthetic surgical heart valves" was invented by Hengchu Cao (Irvine, Calif.), Brian S. Conklin (Orange, Calif.), Paul A. Schmidt (Irvine, Calif.), Grace Myong Kim (Seal Beach, Calif.), James A. Davidson (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Hoa Trinh Tran (Irvine, Calif.) and Kristy Luong Tam (Anaheim, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed prosthetic valves can comprise a sewing ring configured to secure the valve to an implantation site. Some disclosed valves comprise a resiliently collapsible frame having a n...