US 11,986,390 B2
Atraumatic components and structures for implantable devices
Padraig J. Savage, Santa Rosa, CA (US); Michael Lee, Santa Rosa, CA (US); Matthew Rust, Windsor, CA (US); Joshua Mark Inouye, Maple Grove, MN (US); Levi Wolterstorff, Saint Paul, MN (US); and Graham Krumpelmann, Stillwater, MN (US)
Assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on Dec. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/554,760.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/128,927, filed on Dec. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0192829 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2445 (2013.01) [A61F 2/2442 (2013.01); A61F 2/246 (2013.01); A61F 2/2466 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An implantable device configured to be implanted in a patient's heart, the implantable device comprising a frame shiftable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration, and extending along a longitudinal axis between a distal end and a proximal end, wherein:
the distal end of the frame is configured to be secured to tissue at an implant site within the patient's heart
the proximal end of the frame extends away from the distal end; and
the frame further comprises a curved structure positioned over the proximal end of the frame and curved about an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the frame to shielding the proximal end of the frame from heart tissue surrounding the implant site.