US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Oct. 20 for "Devices and systems for docking a heart valve" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,995, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Devices and systems for docking a heart valve" was invented by Shahram Zamani (Newport Coast, Calif.), Robert James Gerard (Coto de Caza, Calif.), Alison Louise Rodriguez (Irvine, Calif.), Anthony Michael Romero (Corona, Calif.), John J. Desrosiers (San Clemente, Calif.), Izaak Rosen (Irvine, Calif.), Andrew Paul Schaffer (Orange, Calif.), Avina Gupta (Alta Loma, Calif.), Tyler Dale O'Dell (Irvine, Calif.), Yara Baker (Riverside, Calif.) and Uyen Duong (Anaheim, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Expandable docking stations for docking an expanda...