US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Sept. 29 for "Suture deployment of prosthetic heart valve" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,123, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Suture deployment of prosthetic heart valve" was invented by Arvin T. Chang (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Yair A. Neumann (Moshav Sede Varburg, Israel), Gil Senesh (Adi, Israel), Hernan Altman (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Scott Louis Pool (Laguna Hills, Calif.), Hannah Ariel Gibson Gerondale (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Amanda Kristine Anderson White (Mountain View, Calif.), Peter Phong Tran (Irvine, Calif.) and Ly Th Phan (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery apparatus for a medical device can include a first shaft, a second shaft, a sutur...