US 11,903,808 B2
Assemblies for sterilizing a wet stored prosthetic heart valve
David Clarke, Galway (IE); Karina Doyle, Galway (IE); Paul Devereux, Galway (IE); Gerry Kearns, Galway (IE); Padraigh Jennings, Galway (IE); Constantino Fiuza, Galway (IE); and Stephen Montgomery, Galway (IE)
Assigned to MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC., Santa Rosa, CA (US)
Filed by Medtronic Vascular, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/354,596.
Application 17/354,596 is a division of application No. 15/968,867, filed on May 2, 2018, granted, now 11,284,984.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/595,618, filed on Dec. 7, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/500,046, filed on May 2, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0315679 A1, Oct. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. A61F 2/00 (2006.01); A61L 2/00 (2006.01); A61F 2/24 (2006.01); B65D 81/22 (2006.01); B65D 81/18 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/0095 (2013.01) [A61F 2/00 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2/2427 (2013.01); A61L 2/0088 (2013.01); A61L 2/0094 (2013.01); B65D 81/18 (2013.01); B65D 81/22 (2013.01); A61L 2202/181 (2013.01); A61L 2202/21 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An assembly including:
an elongated delivery device;
an implant loaded onto a first portion of the elongated delivery device;
a storage container including a first section and a second section; wherein the implant is positioned within the first section and the first portion of the delivery device is positioned in both the first and second sections;
a first seal positioned to retain sterilization fluid within the first section; and
a second seal positioned between at least a portion of the delivery device and the second section, wherein the first seal is impermeable to liquid and the second seal is gas permeable.