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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
May. 31, 2022
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Erik Griswold, Pennegrove, CA (US);
Joshua Dwork, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Jamie Dunaway, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Finn Rinne, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Nathan Wiemeyer, Windsor, CA (US);
MEDTRONIC, INC., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
A delivery system for prosthetic heart valves are provided. The delivery system includes a flexible shaft, a distal sheath capsule configured to contain the prosthetic heart valve, an inner steerable catheter including an inner distal flex component, and an outer steerable catheter including an outer distal flex component. The inner distal flex component includes a first cut pattern and a second cut pattern distal to the first cut pattern. The outer distal flex component includes a third cut pattern. The inner steerable catheter is rotatable at least 90 degrees relative to the outer steerable catheter when the third cut pattern of the outer distal flex component is disposed over at least a portion of the first cut pattern of the inner distal flex component and each of the inner steerable catheter and the outer steerable catheter is in the flexed configuration.