US 12,036,117 B2
Prosthetic valve with natural blood flow
Shmuel Banai, Tel Aviv (IL); Kathleen Hung, New Westminster (CA); Aaron J. Chalekian, Savage, MN (US); Karen Tsoek-Ji Wong, Richmond (CA); Eric Soun-Sang Fung, Vancouver (CA); Connor Lucas Haberl, Vancouver (CA); and David Andrew Moffatt, Richmond (CA)
Assigned to Neovasc Tiara Inc., Richmond (CA)
Filed by Neovasc Tiara Inc., Richmond (CA)
Filed on Oct. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/959,790.
Application 17/959,790 is a continuation of application No. 16/845,870, filed on Apr. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,491,006.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/831,922, filed on Apr. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0100125 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61F 2/06 (2013.01)
CPC A61F 2/2418 (2013.01) [A61F 2/2412 (2013.01); A61F 2002/068 (2013.01); A61F 2/2448 (2013.01); A61F 2/2454 (2013.01); A61F 2/2463 (2013.01); A61F 2/2466 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A prosthetic valve comprising:
a radially expandable frame comprising:
an annular region defining a longitudinal axis;
an atrial flange extending from a first end of the annular region;
a ventricular skirt extending from a second end of the annular region; and
at least one anchor tab;
a covering disposed along at least a portion of the annular region; and
at least one leaflet disposed within the radially expandable frame, the at least one leaflet being angled relative to the longitudinal axis;
wherein:
the at least one leaflet comprises an anterior leaflet configured to direct blood flow therethrough toward a posterior wall of a heart of a patient;
the at least one leaflet comprises a posterior leaflet that is shorter in length than the anterior leaflet;
one of the posterior leaflet and anterior leaflet is immobile; and another of the posterior leaflet and anterior leaflet is mobile.