US 12,458,490 B2
Valve implant with integrated sensor and transmitter
Salvador Marquez, Foothill Ranch, CA (US); Da-Yu Chang, Irvine, CA (US); Cindy Woo, Irvine, CA (US); Hao-Chung Yang, Tustin, CA (US); Lynn T. Dang, Huntington Beach, CA (US); Javier A. Sanguinetti, Irvine, CA (US); Alexander H. Siemons, Yorba Linda, CA (US); Yaron Keidar, Kiryat Ono (IL); Virginia Qi Lin, Costa Mesa, CA (US); Brian S. Conklin, Orange, CA (US); and Donald E. Bobo, Jr., Santa Ana, CA (US)
Assigned to EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/046,473.
Application 18/046,473 is a continuation of application No. 16/888,649, filed on May 29, 2020, granted, now 11,471,275.
Application 16/888,649 is a continuation of application No. 15/452,617, filed on Mar. 7, 2017, granted, now 10,667,904, issued on Jun. 2, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/417,206, filed on Nov. 3, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/305,347, filed on Mar. 8, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0068893 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A61F 2/24 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/026 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/2409 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0031 (2013.01); A61B 5/026 (2013.01); A61B 5/4851 (2013.01); A61B 5/686 (2013.01); A61F 2/2412 (2013.01); A61F 2/2418 (2013.01); A61F 2/2445 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0261 (2013.01); A61F 2210/0076 (2013.01); A61F 2230/0069 (2013.01); A61F 2240/00 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transcatheter heart valve assembly comprising:
a transcatheter heart valve comprising:
a support frame that is radially collapsible for delivery in a catheter and expandable for deployment in a patient, the support frame comprising an interior surface and an exterior surface; and
a valve structure that is radially collapsible, the valve structure comprising a plurality of valve leaflets, the valve structure being disposed within the support frame and fixed to the interior surface of the support frame;
a sensor device configured to sense a physiological parameter and provide a sensor signal based on the sensed physiological parameter; and
a transmitter assembly tethered to the transcatheter heart valve, wherein the transmitter assembly:
comprises an antenna coil having a plurality of concentric full elliptical loops that are coaxial with the support frame and axially offset from an end of the support frame;
is electrically coupled to the sensor device; and
is configured to wirelessly transmit a transmission signal that is based at least in part on the sensor signal;
wherein the support frame and transmitter assembly are configured for the support frame to be anchored in an annular structure of a patient with the transmitter assembly not directly affixed to anatomy of the patient.