US Patent Issued to Edwards Lifesciences on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for estimating outer diameters of prosthetic valves" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,002, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for estimating outer diameters of prosthetic valves" was invented by Anatoly Dvorsky (Haifa, Israel) and Yara Khader (Nazareth-Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to systems and methods for estimating prosthetic valve expansion diameter, and in particular, for system and methods for analyzing images acquired during prosthetic valve expansion, to identify structural components of the valve, determine dimensions thereof, and estimate at least one outer diameter of the prosthetic valve, and pot...