ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,117, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Michael Bukin (Pardes Hanna, Israel) and Nikolai Gurovich (Hadera, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic valve has a radially expandable and compressible frame including a plurality of interconnected struts and a valvular structure including a plurality of leaflets configured to regulate the flow of blood through the prosthetic valve. The leaflets can have undulating cusp edge portions. The prosthetic valve further includes at least one connecting skirt having a shape that corresponds to the cus...