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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2017
Applicant:
Biostable Science & Engineering, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
J. Scott Rankin, Nashville, TN (US);
Assignee:
BIOSTABLE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, INC., Austin, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/82 (2013.01); A61F 2/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/24 (2013.01); A61F 2/2409 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2/2445 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0071 (2013.01); A61F 2240/002 (2013.01);
Abstract
An intra-annular mounting frame for an aortic valve having native aortic cusps is provided which includes a frame body with native leaflet reorienting curvatures and interconnecting points; the curvatures shaped to be received inside the valve below the native aortic cusps and to reorient the native aortic cusps within the aortic valve, where each of the curvatures extends concavely upward from a reference latitudinal plane tangential to each curvature's base.