Transcatheter medical implant delivery

Grant US12575816B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

Edwards Lifesciences Corporation

Inventors

Michael G. Valdez, Cristobal R. Hernandez, Eric Jason Noda, Hien T Nguyen, Trizzie Trang Dang, Lillian Grace Myers, Linda Thai, Daniel James Murray, Don Huy Tran

Abstract

A medical implant delivery system can comprise a puncture needle, a medical implant delivery catheter and the puncture needle being configured to be slidably advanced through a puncture needle lumen of the medical implant delivery catheter, a medical implant device positioned on the medical implant delivery catheter, and an outer delivery catheter comprising a medical implant delivery lumen, the medical implant delivery catheter being configured to slidably extend through the medical implant delivery lumen. A medical implant delivery system can comprise a puncture needle, a medical implant delivery catheter and the puncture needle being configured to slidably extend through the puncture needle lumen of the medical implant delivery catheter, a medical implant device positioned on the medical implant delivery catheter, an elongate housing adjacent to the medical implant delivery catheter, and an outer sheath around a portion of the medical implant delivery catheter and the elongate housing.

CPC Classifications

A61B 17/00234 A61B 17/3468 A61B 17/3478 A61B 2017/00247 A61B 2017/00292 A61B 2017/00252 A61B 2017/00296 A61B 2017/1107 A61B 2017/1139 A61B 2017/22069 A61B 17/11 A61B 2017/22052 A61M 27/002 A61M 2025/0087 A61M 2025/0004

Filing Date

2022-05-13

Application No.

17744127

Claims

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