Hewlett-packard Company

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

David J Arcaro

Wayne E Foote

Dustin V Dienno

Cody L Hartman

James L Goepfrich

Roy Manygoats, Jr

Benjamin A Smith

Ryan S Titone

Russell L Jacoby

Joshua C Haarer

Stephen M Probert

William Wilkie

Jason T Alger

Olga Baykova

Gary E Hanson

Vladek P Kasperchik

Eric Lee Burch

Paul K Mui

David Michael Kwasny

Patrick M Norris

David L Smith

Kenneth Eugene Heath

Miquel Boleda

Kyle W Colavito

Russell A Mendenhall

Logan R Hagaman

Roberto Obregon

Michael J Shepard

Edwin W Field

Joshua A Sprinkle

Bill R Finney

Ryan D Smith

Kevin J Derryberry

Andrew P Hilton

Edward J Hoopingarner

Paul L Jeran

B Mark Hirst

James G Bearss

Mark John Wibbels

Jeffrey Scott Weaver

Richard J Mcmanus

Gustavo M Guillemin

Maximo Gayoso

Kenneth A Lindblom

Israel Cruz

Shilin Guo

Stephen Ledak

Dan M Weeks

John Havard

Allen L Frazier

Mark W Wright

David S Pitou

Gabriel Mendoza

John L Hettinger

Roy Manygoats

The invention relates to a valve used in medical procedures. More specifically the invention relates to an introducer sheath valve used in minimally invasive and conventional surgical procedures. The valve may accommodate a wide range of surgical implement diameters, shapes, and multiple implements without imposing the high frictional forces of known valves.

Valve assembly for medical procedures

Various examples relate to a transcatheter delivery system including a sheath, a delivery catheter, and an implantable device (e.g., a prosthetic valve, a stent, a stent graft, occluder, or vascular filter) maintained in a collapsed configuration by the delivery catheter. The delivery catheter includes a plurality of fiber guides separated by one or more reduced profile sections each having a smaller transverse outer profile than the transverse outer profiles of the fiber guides.

Transcatheter deployment systems and associated methods

Described embodiments are directed toward centrally-opening leaflet prosthetic valves having a frame and a leaflet construct. Leaflet frame attachments for prosthetic valves include the leaflet construct being at least partially coupled to a frame outer side by a looped structure.

Leaflet frame attachment for prosthetic valves

Described embodiments are directed toward centrally-opening leaflet prosthetic valve devices having a leaflet frame and a mechanically coupled leaflet. The described leaflet frames have projections that are configured to couple with a leaflet attachment region of a leaflet. Some embodiments include a leaflet retention feature that engages the leaflet frame projections and operates to secure the leaflet to the leaflet frame. Methods of making and using such prosthetic valve devices are also described.

Prosthetic valves with mechanically coupled leaflets

Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that include a prosthetic valve. The prosthetic valve may include a jacket configured to cover at least one of gaps, spaces, or interfaces in a frame or between one or more leaflets attached to the frame.

Jacket for surgical heart valve

Aspects of the disclosure relate to prosthetic valves having a frame, a frame cover, and a leaflet construct. Some aspects are directed to a diametric taper for the prosthetic valve for achieving enhanced performance of the prosthetic valve under operational conditions, enhanced compressibility and delivery characteristics, and other additional or alternative advantages. Other aspects are directed toward unique assembly and attachment methods for securing leaflet constructs to support structures. Other aspects are directed toward features for interacting with transcatheter delivery systems. Still other aspects are directed to such apparatuses, systems, and methods for valve replacement, such as cardiac valve replacement.

Prosthetic valve with expandable frame and associated systems and methods

A representative embodiment provides for an imaging apparatus including an output tray supported by the imaging apparatus and configured to receive sheet media from a first source and a second source, wherein the first source and the second source are respectively supported by the imaging apparatus. Optionally, the imaging apparatus also includes a detector configured to provide a signal in response to a predetermined accumulation of sheet media from the first source and the second source within the output tray. Another embodiment provides a method of receiving a first sheet media and a second sheet media within a common output tray, including routing the first sheet media from an imaging device into the output tray using a diverter device, and routing the second sheet media from the imaging device into a sheet handling device and then into the output tray using the diverter device.

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David J Arcaro