	US 11,890,190 B2
	Location indication system for implant-delivery tool
Tal Sheps, Givat Shmuel (IL); Tal Hammer, Ramat Gan (IL); Tal Reich, Moledet (IL); Ehud Aviv, Costa Mesa, CA (US); Amir Gross, Tel Aviv-Jaffa (IL); Yaron Herman, Givat Ada (IL); Alexei Koifman, Melbourne (AU); and Yuval Zipory, Modi'in (IL)
Assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd., Caesarea (IL)
Filed by Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd., Caesarea (IL)
Filed on Apr. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/859,991.
Application 15/955,421 is a division of application No. 14/437,373, granted, now 9,949,828, issued on Apr. 24, 2018, previously published as PCT/IL2013/050860, filed on Oct. 23, 2013.
Application 16/859,991 is a continuation of application No. 15/955,421, filed on Apr. 17, 2018, granted, now 10,893,939.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/820,979, filed on May 8, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/745,848, filed on Dec. 26, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/717,303, filed on Oct. 23, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2020/0253730 A1, Aug. 13, 2020
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61M 25/01 (2006.01); A61M 25/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/068 (2006.01); A61M 25/06 (2006.01); A61M 29/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/064 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01)

CPC A61F 2/2436 (2013.01) [A61B 17/068 (2013.01); A61F 2/2427 (2013.01); A61F 2/2445 (2013.01); A61F 2/2466 (2013.01); A61M 25/0133 (2013.01); A61M 25/0147 (2013.01); A61M 25/04 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00039 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00044 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00199 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00327 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00398 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00455 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0649 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02); A61B 2090/066 (2016.02); A61B 2090/0807 (2016.02); A61B 2090/0811 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3966 (2016.02); A61M 25/06 (2013.01); A61M 25/0662 (2013.01); A61M 29/00 (2013.01); A61M 2025/015 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0681 (2013.01); Y02E 60/36 (2013.01)]

31 Claims

1. A system, comprising:

an implant, comprising a tissue anchor comprising:

a coupling head, and

a distal helical tissue-engaging element,

a multi-component tubular system:

comprising:

a catheter, and

a channel, slidable within the catheter, the tissue anchor being slidable through the channel,

transluminally advanceable into a heart of a subject, and

configured to deliver the implant inside the heart;

an anchor driver having a distal end that is reversibly couplable to the coupling head of the tissue anchor in a manner that configures the anchor driver to:

drive the tissue anchor through the multi-component tubular system and out of a distal end of the multi-component tubular system, and

anchor the distal helical tissue-engaging element to tissue of the heart;

a first electrode configured to contact the subject;

a second electrode configured to be positioned inside the heart of the subject; and

a control unit electrically coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode, the control unit comprising a display and circuitry configured, while the first electrode is in contact with the subject and the second electrode is inside the heart of the subject, to:

receive an electrical signal from the first electrode and the second electrode, and

based on the electrical signal, provide, via the display, information indicative of a position of the second electrode inside the heart;

wherein the channel is electrically coupled to the control unit such that the channel provides the second electrode.