US 12,232,948 B2
Embolic protection system
Christopher K. Huynh, San Jose, CA (US); Michael T. Carley, San Jose, CA (US); Richard S. Ginn, Powhatan, VA (US); and Adam Robert Tanner, Sun Lakes, AZ (US)
Assigned to Transaortic Medical, Inc., Morgan Hill, CA (US)
Filed by Transaortic Medical, Inc., Morgan Hill, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/893,818.
Prior Publication US 2024/0065821 A1, Feb. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. A61F 2/01 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/013 (2013.01) [A61F 2/011 (2020.05); A61F 2002/016 (2013.01); A61F 2002/018 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An embolic protection
device including:
a catheter shaft;
an expandable filter provided at a distal end of the catheter shaft;
a filter actuator located at or towards a proximal end of the embolic protection device, the filter actuator operable to open and close a mouth of the expandable filter, wherein the mouth of the expandable filter includes a hoop wire connected by an actuation wire to the filter actuator; and
a filter dilator insertable into a lumen of the catheter shaft, wherein the filter dilator comprises a filter dilator tip, and wherein the filter dilator tip includes a circumferential channel to capture or retain the hoop wire of the mouth of the expandable filter when the mouth of the expandable filter is closed by the actuation wire.