US 11,751,937 B2
Ablation catheters and related systems and methods
Doron Harlev, Watertown, MA (US); and Ian Matthew Collier, Watertown, MA (US)
Assigned to AFFERA, INC., Watertown, MA (US)
Appl. No. 16/633,133
Filed by Affera, Inc., Watertown, MA (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 24, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/043529
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 22, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/023259, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 31, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/536,877, filed on Jul. 25, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0229866 A1, Jul. 23, 2020
Int. Cl. A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 18/1492 (2013.01) [A61B 2018/00029 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00738 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00815 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00839 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00875 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1417 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1465 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1472 (2013.01); A61B 2218/002 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ablation catheter comprising:
a catheter body having an outer diameter and defining a fluid delivery lumen, and
a deformable tip secured to the catheter body,
wherein the deformable tip (i) comprises one or more valves that are configured to open in response to inward deformation of the deformable tip upon contact with target tissue and (ii) has an inner diameter greater than the outer diameter of the catheter body, and
wherein the ablation catheter is configured to permit liquid communication between an interior of the deformable tip and an exterior of the deformable tip in response to a deformation of the tip.