Expandable Sheath for Transcatheter Heart Valve
Summary
USPTO published patent application US20260097182A1 for an expandable sheath designed for transcatheter heart valve procedures, filed December 10, 2025. The invention relates to a protective sheath that expands where medical devices are positioned and reforms to its original shape after device passage through patient body passageways.
What changed
USPTO published a patent application (US20260097182A1) for an expandable sheath designed for use with transcatheter heart valves and other medical devices. The sheath features expandable regions where medical devices are positioned and reforms to its original size and shape after the device passes through.
Medical device manufacturers developing cardiac prostheses, transcatheter valve systems, or similar delivery systems should monitor this application. While patent applications do not immediately affect compliance obligations, the technology disclosed may represent prior art for competing innovations or opportunities for licensing discussions in the cardiovascular device space.
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EXPANDABLE SHEATH FOR A TRANSCATHETER HEART VALVE
Application US20260097182A1 Kind: A1 Apr 09, 2026
Inventors
Jay Yadav, Angela Rothfuss, Darren DeMedici, Noah Roth
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a sheath that is usable with a medical device, particularly to a sheath that is useable with a medical device and which sheath is expandable in the regions that the medical device is positioned in the sheath, and more particularly to a sheath that is useable with a medical device and which sheath is expandable in the regions that the medical device is positioned in the sheath and which sheath reforms to its same or similar size and shape after the medical device has passed through a portion of all of the sheath. The sheath is used to protect the body passageway of a patient as a medical device is inserted into and/or through the body passageway and to a treatment site.
CPC Classifications
A61M 25/0023 A61F 2/2466 A61M 2025/0024 A61M 2205/0266
Filing Date
2025-12-10
Application No.
19415148
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