US 12,115,328 B2
Devices with dimensions that can be reduced and increased in vivo, and methods of making and using the same
Nir Nae, Binhamina (IL); Neal Eigler, Agoura Hills, CA (US); Nathan Bukhdruker, Haifa (IL); James S. Whiting, Los Angeles, CA (US); Lior Rosen, Or Akiva (IL); Erez Rozenfeld, Shoham (IL); and Werner Hafelfinger, Thousand Oaks, CA (US)
Assigned to V-Wave Ltd., Caesarea (IL)
Filed by V-Wave Ltd., Caesarea (IL)
Filed on Nov. 6, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/092,081.
Application 17/092,081 is a continuation of application No. 16/875,652, filed on May 15, 2020, granted, now 10,898,698.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/019,777, filed on May 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0338990 A1, Nov. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 27/00 (2006.01); A61F 2/90 (2013.01); A61F 2/95 (2013.01)
CPC A61M 27/002 (2013.01) [A61F 2/90 (2013.01); A61F 2/95 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0023 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0069 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0078 (2013.01); A61F 2250/001 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0039 (2013.01); A61M 2205/0266 (2013.01); A61M 2210/125 (2013.01)] 41 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for adjustably regulating fluid flow therethrough in vivo, the device comprising:
a cylindrical shunt component; and
a diabolo-shaped shunt component coupled to the cylindrical shunt component and comprising a first malleable shape-memory material and a neck,
the first malleable shape-memory material having a first cross sectional area,
the first malleable shape-memory material being expandable in vivo to a second cross sectional area, and
the first malleable shape-memory material being contractible in vivo to a third cross sectional area,
wherein the cylindrical shunt component is not directly coupled to the neck of the diabolo-shaped shunt component, and wherein the cylindrical shunt component is elastically coupled to the diabolo-shaped shunt component via an encapsulant.