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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2016
Applicant:
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Inventors:
Martha Barajas-Torres, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Kevin Mauch, Windsor, CA (US);
Jeffrey Sandstrom, Scandia, MN (US);
Jill Mendelson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Don Tran, Novato, CA (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61F 2/95 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/2439 (2013.01); A61F 2/2415 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2002/9511 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to numerous devices and methods for transcatheter stented prosthetic heart valve loading and delivery. Such devices and methods reduce suture tangling and also provide the ability to adjust the stented prosthetic heart valve expansion and contraction prior to the final release of the stented prosthetic heart valve from the delivery device.