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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2018
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE (US);
David J. Arcaro, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Jason T. Alger, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Dustin V. Dienno, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Joshua C. Haarer, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Edward J. Hoopingarner, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Patrick M. Norris, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Benjamin A. Smith, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Olga Baykova, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Russell L. Jacoby, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
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.