公开(公告)号：US20220280150A1

公开(公告)日：2022-09-08

申请号：US17751956

申请日：2022-05-24

Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Inventor： Aaron M. Fortson

IPC: A61B17/04

Abstract: A closure system for closing an opening in tissue, the closure system including a closure device and a knot replacement device configured to position a suture lock on a suture. The closure device includes a housing, a needle actuation handle cooperating with the housing, a first hollow needle selectively movable by the needle actuation handle and operatively cooperating with a suture anchor frictionally engaged with a slot and a lumen of the first hollow needle and coupled to a suture. A portion of the suture anchor rests along an outer surface of the first hollow needle as the first hollow needle is advanced through tissue adjacent the opening.

公开(公告)号：US11324614B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-10

申请号：US16172599

申请日：2018-10-26

Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.

Inventor： Mikael Trollsas ,  Michael H. Ngo ,  Boris Anukhin ,  Alexander Nikanorov ,  Syed Hossainy ,  John E. Papp ,  Dudley Jayasinghe ,  Zella Solter

IPC: A61F2/915 ,  A61F2/82 ,  A61F2/958 ,  A61F2/89 ,  B21D39/04 ,  A61F2/91 ,  A61L31/06 ,  A61L31/14 ,  A61F2/95 ,  A61L27/00 ,  A61F2/86 ,  A61F2/844 ,  B29C35/08 ,  B29K67/00 ,  B29L23/00 ,  B29L31/00

Abstract: A medical device includes a polymer stent (or scaffold) crimped to a catheter balloon. The stent, after being expanded from a crimped state by the balloon, provides a crush recovery of about 90% of its expanded diameter after being pinched or crushed by an amount equal to about 50% of the expanded diameter. The stent has a pattern including a W-shaped or W-V shaped closed cell and links connecting the closed cells.

公开(公告)号：US11298251B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-12

申请号：US16601259

申请日：2019-10-14

Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Inventor： John A. Simpson ,  Puneet Kamal Singh Gill ,  Pamela A. Kramer-Brown

IPC: A61F2/82 ,  C22C1/04 ,  A61L31/18 ,  A61L31/02 ,  C22C19/07 ,  A61F2/06 ,  C22C19/05 ,  C22C27/06 ,  C22C27/04 ,  C22C27/00

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to radiopaque implantable structures (e.g., stents) formed of cobalt-based alloys that comprise cobalt, chromium, tungsten, and nickel. Tungsten is present above its solubility limit (about 15%), but is still only present as a super-saturated, primarily single-phase material exhibiting an FCC microcrystalline structure.

公开(公告)号：US11129970B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-28

申请号：US16042515

申请日：2018-07-23

Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Inventor： John A. Simpson ,  Bruce M. Wilson

IPC: A61M25/09

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to multi-segment intraluminal guide wires including an elongate distal portion comprising a first metallic material (e.g., nitinol), an elongate proximal portion comprising a second metallic material (e.g., stainless steel). The distal and proximal portions may be directly joined together end to end by a solid-state weld joint. A diameter of the weld region surrounding the weld joint on either side of the weld joint may be reduced (e.g., ground down) relative to the diameter of the distal and proximal portions of the guide wire on either side of the weld region. A stiffness adjusting sleeve may be disposed over the weld joint so that a transition profile of bending stiffness across the weld region is gradual, rather than abrupt across the distal portion of the guide wire to the proximal portion of the guide wire. A polymer jacket may cover the sleeve and distal portion.

公开(公告)号：US20210187239A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-24

申请号：US17177121

申请日：2021-02-16

Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.

Inventor： Lauren Coatsworth ,  Jimmy L. Quijas

IPC: A61M25/00 ,  A61M25/09 ,  A61B90/94 ,  A61B50/20 ,  B25B11/00

Abstract: A method for managing a guidewire in preparation for a surgical operation, comprising attaching a block of resilient polymer to a coiled tube which contains a guidewire; attaching to the block of resilient polymer a card having printed information concerning the guidewire on a planar surface of the card; removing the guidewire from the coiled tube; removing the block of resilient polymer from the coiled tube while keeping the card having printed information attached to the block of resilient polymer; coiling the guidewire into a flat spiral form; capturing, in a slot formed in the block of resilient polymer, a plurality of portions of the guidewire, which portions are adjacent to and parallel with each other, thereby maintaining the guidewire in the flat spiral form.

公开(公告)号：US11033711B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-15

申请号：US16530843

申请日：2019-08-02

Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.

Inventor： Lauren Coatsworth ,  Jimmy L. Quijas

IPC: A61M25/00 ,  A61M25/09 ,  A61B90/94 ,  A61B50/20 ,  B25B11/00

Abstract: A method for managing a guidewire in preparation for a surgical operation, comprising attaching a block of resilient polymer to a coiled tube which contains a guidewire; attaching to the block of resilient polymer a card having printed information concerning the guidewire on a planar surface of the card; removing the guidewire from the coiled tube; removing the block of resilient polymer from the coiled tube while keeping the card having printed information attached to the block of resilient polymer; coiling the guidewire into a flat spiral form; capturing, in a slot formed in the block of resilient polymer, a plurality of portions of the guidewire, which portions are adjacent to and parallel with each other, thereby maintaining the guidewire in the flat spiral form.

公开(公告)号：US10980531B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-20

申请号：US16052263

申请日：2018-08-01

Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Inventor： Wouter E. Roorda ,  Douglas H. Mehl ,  Rizza A. Garcia ,  Timothy C. Reynolds ,  Dinorah V. Merrill ,  Dawn Ma ,  David J. Milazzo ,  Aaron M. Fortson

IPC: A61B17/04 ,  A61B17/06 ,  A61B17/00

Abstract: A closure device for closing an opening in tissue is provided. The closure device includes an elongate member through which needles may be deployed. The closure device also includes a foot portion having one or more feet slidably mounted relative thereto. The feet are movable between a deployed position and a delivery position. The feet include cuffs removably mounted therein, with sutures connected between the cuffs. When the feet are in the deployed position and the needles are advanced, the needles securely engage the cuffs and draw the cuffs and suture through the lumen wall so that the opening in the lumen wall can be closed with the sutures.

公开(公告)号：US20210106324A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-15

申请号：US17130764

申请日：2020-12-22

Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Inventor： Wouter E. Roorda ,  Douglas H. Mehl ,  Rizza A. Garcia ,  Timothy C. Reynolds ,  Dinorah V. Merrill ,  Dawn Ma ,  David J. Milazzo ,  Aaron M. Fortson

IPC: A61B17/04 ,  A61B17/06

Abstract: A device for closing an opening in a body lumen, the device having a first elongate member with a first lumen, a second elongate member distal the first elongate member, and a needle assembly slidably cooperating with the first elongate member to position a plurality of sutures within the lumen of the first elongate member. The needle assembly includes a needle base and a plurality of needle portions extending from the needle base. Slidable movement of the needle assembly in relation to the first elongate member locates the plurality of sutures selectively mounted to the needle assembly within the first lumen.

公开(公告)号：US10893941B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-19

申请号：US16050445

申请日：2018-07-31

Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Inventor： Michael F. Wei

IPC: A61F2/24 ,  A61B17/122 ,  A61B17/08 ,  A61B17/00

Abstract: The present disclosure describes tissue gripping devices, systems, and methods for gripping mitral valve tissue during treatment of a mitral valve and while a tissue fixation device is implanted in the mitral valve. The tissue gripping device includes a flexible member and one or more tissue gripping members coupled to one or more arms of the flexible member. The flexible member is formed from a shape-memory material, such as nitinol, and the tissue gripping member(s) are formed from a material that is more rigid than the shape-memory material. The tissue gripping member(s) are attached to the flexible member by threading or looping suture lines around and/or through the tissue gripping member(s) and the flexible member and/or by applying a cover material to the tissue gripping device to hold the tissue gripping member(s) against the flexible member.

公开(公告)号：US20210000459A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-07

申请号：US17026834

申请日：2020-09-21

Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.

Inventor： Aaron M. Fortson

IPC: A61B17/00 ,  A61B17/04 ,  A61B17/06

Abstract: Devices for closing a passage through tissue communicating with a body lumen. The device may include an elongate body, a sheath disposed at the distal end of the device for disposition within a body lumen, a hollow needle disposed within a needle lumen of the body, the needle being selectively advancable through the needle lumen, a suture-anchor ejection mandrel disposed within the hollow needle that is also selectively advancable through the hollow needle, a suture-anchor and suture disposed within the hollow needle, a distal end of the suture attached to the suture anchor for ejection out the hollow needle by the mandrel. A needle guide disposed between the sheath and proximal end of the body may include a needle port through which the needle can exit. A hemostatic plug is disposed over the needle port so as to be penetrated by the needle upon exiting the port.