US Patent Issued to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES on Sept. 2 for "Systems and methods for anatomical feature determination" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,851, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for anatomical feature determination" was invented by Yara Khader (Nazareth-Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining a position of a native leaflet can include identifying a position of a mineral formation on the native leaflet before implantation of a prosthetic valve and analyzing an image representing the prosthetic valve implanted within the cardiac vessel. The analysis can identify a position of the mineral formation within the cardiac vessel after the prosthetic valve is implanted. Based on th...