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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2022
Filed:
May. 02, 2018
Medtronic Vascular Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
David Clarke, Galway, IE;
Karina Doyle, Galway, IE;
Paul Devereux, Galway, IE;
Gerry Kearns, Galway, IE;
Padraigh Jennings, Galway, IE;
Constantino Fiuza, Galway, IE;
Stephen Montgomery, Galway, IE;
Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure relate to 'wet' transcatheter prosthetic heart valve or other implant packaging and assemblies in which a prosthetic heart valve or other implant is loaded into a first portion of a delivery device and positioned within a container in which sterilizing fluid is retained to sterilize interior portions of the container as well as provide moisture to prevent the implant from drying out. The disclosure also relates to methods of sterilizing the disclosed assemblies. Some disclosed methods include at least two sterilizing steps and adjustment of a mechanical seal member or formation of multiple seals so that areas proximate the seals are also sterilized during the sterilization process.