US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Sept. 8 for "Prosthetic heart valve leaflet commissure assemblies and methods" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,994, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prosthetic heart valve leaflet commissure assemblies and methods" was invented by Tamir S. Levi (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel) and Ziv Yohanan (Kfar Hahoresh, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prosthetic heart valve can comprise an annular frame and a leaflet assembly. The frame can be radially expandable and compressible between a radially compressed state and a radially expanded state. The leaflet assembly can comprise a plurality of leaflets coupled to each other to form commissures, which can be coupled to the frame using a plurality of commissu...