US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Sept. 15 for "Commissure marker for a prosthetic heart valve" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,031, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Commissure marker for a prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Jeanette Jasmine Corona Kelly (formerly Corona) (Anaheim, Calif.), Taylor Michael Winters (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.), Ashley Akemi Ishigo (Torrance, Calif.) and Brendan Michael Dalbow (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for attaching a radiopaque marker to a prosthetic heart valve to indicate a location of a commissure of the prosthetic heart valve are disclosed. As one example, a prosthetic heart valve can include a frame, a plurality of leafle...