US 12,376,963 B1
Prosthetic heart valves
Rachel Jean Anderson, St. Louis Park, MN (US); Lucas Tradd Schneider, Champlin, MN (US); Gunnar Paul Askegaard, Maple Grove, MN (US); Daniel Oliver, Portland, OR (US); and Ramji Iyer, Plymouth, MN (US)
Assigned to Laplace Interventional Inc., Plymouth, MN (US)
Filed by Laplace Interventional Inc., Plymouth, MN (US)
Filed on May 9, 2025, as Appl. No. 19/203,515.
Application 19/203,515 is a division of application No. 19/085,135, filed on Mar. 20, 2025.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/757,042, filed on Feb. 11, 2025.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2439 (2013.01) [A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0043 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A prosthetic valve system comprising:
a prosthetic heart valve comprising:
a main body including an inflow end portion and an outflow end portion, the main body defining a central axis extending between the inflow and outflow end portions; and
one or more anterior flaps extending from the outflow end portion in a first direction that is transverse to the central axis; and
a valve deployment system comprising:
an elongate control catheter defining one or more lumens and comprising a naturally curved end portion;
a third control wire slidably disposed in the one or more lumens and releasably coupled to the one or more anterior flaps; and
a suture or wire member releasably coupled to the third control wire,
wherein adding tension to the suture or wire member adjusts a curvature of the elongate control catheter in a direction of the one or more anterior flaps.