US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Sept. 15 for "Ventricular anchors for valve repair and replacement devices" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,029, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Ventricular anchors for valve repair and replacement devices" was invented by Mark Chau (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Marlowe E. Patterson (Orange, Calif.), Seung-Beom Yi (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Stephen C. Geist (Bend, Ore.) and Travis Zenyo Oba (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic spacer assembly includes a spacer, a first anchor, and a second anchor. The first anchor and the second anchor are each connected to the spacer. The first anchor curves around the spacer when viewed from an upstream end. The second anchor curves a...