Patents Assigned to Evalve, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20230248521
    Abstract: Fixation device for fixation of leaflets of a heart valve includes a central assembly and at least one arm moveably coupled to the central assembly. The at least one arm includes a body portion having a first end and a second end and a longitudinal axis defined therebetween, the second end being moveable between a closed position and an open position, the body portion having opposing body lateral sides, each body lateral side extending between the first end and the second end, the body portion having a body portion width defined between the opposing body lateral sides. The at least one arm further includes first and second nondeformable wing extensions, each wing extension extending laterally from a respective lateral side, each wing extension having a lateral outer edge, wherein a maximum arm width is defined between the outer lateral edge of the first wing extension and the outer lateral edge of the second wing extension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Chad Abunassar, Jessie Garcia, Gabriel Gonzales, Samir Jain, Casey Barbarino, Santosh Prabhu
  • Publication number: 20230181248
    Abstract: Systems and methods for separating native heart valve leaflets attached together by a fixation device. Systems including an elongate shaft having a proximal end portion, a distal end portion and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween, the elongate shaft configured for transvascular delivery of the distal end portion to a native heart valve. At least one arm extending from the distal end portion, and a cutter disposed along at least one of the distal end portion and the at least one arm. The at least one arm is configured to extend through an orifice defined between native heart valve leaflets attached together by a fixation device to position the cutter against one of the native heart valve leaflets adjacent the fixation device, the cutter configured to cut through native heart valve leaflet tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventor: Michael F. Wei
  • Patent number: 11666433
    Abstract: Valve devices for replacement of mitral valves while preserving valvular and subvalvular mitral valve apparatus. The valve device may be configured as a double orifice valve replacement device, and may include an anchoring and manifold assembly coupleable to a delivery catheter. The assembly may include means for anchoring the device to the mitral valve or to a fixation device already attached to the mitral valve. A peripheral ring anchoring system secured to the assembly may include at least one expandable anchoring ring that is expandable within an orifice of the mitral valve so as to surround the orifice perimeter. A helical suture may be helically disposable about the ring, securing the ring to adjacent leaflet tissue. A trap door valve including a trap door body that seals against the anchoring ring during systole and unseals during the diastolic portion of the cardiac cycle may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventor: Carlos G. Hernandez
  • Patent number: 11660189
    Abstract: Fixation device for fixation of leaflets of a heart valve includes a central assembly and at least one arm moveably coupled to the central assembly. The at least one arm includes a body portion having a first end and a second end and a longitudinal axis defined therebetween, the second end being moveable between a closed position and an open position, the body portion having opposing body lateral sides, each body lateral side extending between the first end and the second end, the body portion having a body portion width defined between the opposing body lateral sides. The at least one arm further includes first and second nondeformable wing extensions, each wing extension extending laterally from a respective lateral side, each wing extension having a lateral outer edge, wherein a maximum arm width is defined between the outer lateral edge of the first wing extension and the outer lateral edge of the second wing extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Chad Abunassar, Jessie Garcia, Gabriel Gonzales, Samir Jain, Casey Barbarino, Santosh Prabhu
  • Patent number: 11653947
    Abstract: An interventional device for cutting tissue at a targeted cardiac valve, such as a mitral valve. The interventional device includes a catheter having a proximal end and a distal end. A cutting mechanism is positionable at the distal end, such as by routing the cutting mechanism through the catheter to position it at the distal end. The cutting mechanism includes one or more cutting elements configured for cutting valve tissue when engaged against the tissue. A handle is coupled to the proximal end of the catheter and includes one or more controls for actuating the cutting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventor: Santosh V. Prabhu
  • Publication number: 20230131595
    Abstract: Medical delivery system for accessing a tricuspid valve via an inferior vena cava, including an outer guide catheter, an inner guide catheter and an interventional catheter. The first deflection portion of the outer guide catheter is steerable to define a first outer-guide-catheter curve and the second deflection portion of the outer guide catheter is steerable to define a second outer-guide-catheter curve and the first deflection portion of the inner guide catheter is steerable to define a first inner-guide-catheter curve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Dylan T. Van Hoven, Michael F. Wei
  • Patent number: 11622859
    Abstract: Medical device delivery system including a catheter, handle, lock line handle, and lock line. The catheter includes a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The handle is coupled to the proximal end portion of the catheter. The lock line handle is releasably coupled to the handle and actuatable between a lock position and an unlock position. The lock line includes a first end portion fixedly coupled to the lock line handle, a second end portion releasably coupled to the lock line handle, and an intermediate portion configured to be releasably coupled to the medical implant disposed proximate the distal end portion of the catheter. Actuating the lock line handle from the lock position toward the unlock position increases tension on the lock line, and actuating the lock line handle from the unlock position toward the lock position decreases tension on the lock line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Koji Kizuka, Gabriel Gonzales, Dylan Van Hoven, Alexander Chu, Erik Jagger, Scott Mosher
  • Patent number: 11602367
    Abstract: Apparatus for excising and removing a clip or suture joining leaflets of a native heart valve. The apparatus includes an elongate shaft configured for remote access to a native heart valve, the elongate shaft having a proximal end, a distal end, and a lumen defined therein, and a clamp at the distal end of the elongate shaft, the clamp configured to receive a clip or suture joining native leaflet tissue, the clamp including a passageway extending along a length thereof in communication with the lumen. The apparatus further includes a cutter moveable within the passageway to encompass a clip or suture joining native leaflet tissue received within the clamp and cut native leaflet tissue proximate the clip or suture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventor: Gideon Cohen
  • Patent number: 11590321
    Abstract: A steerable guide catheter includes a tip ring at a distal end and one or more pullwires configured to engage with the tip ring when put in tension, the pullwire(s) thereby subjecting the steerable guide catheter to a curving or turning force. The tip ring includes a saddle and one or more pullwire channels allowing the pullwire to be looped over the saddle such that when the pullwire is placed under tension, it abuts against the saddle of the tip ring. Some embodiments include additional catheters axially aligned within or outside of the steerable guide catheter, and include a keying feature aligning the rotation of the multiple catheters. The keys of the keying feature can be formed of a polyamide with a glass microsphere filler, and can be thermally welded to the catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Dylan T. Van Hoven, Jose C. Vital, Amy Lee
  • Publication number: 20230016654
    Abstract: A mitral valve clip includes a stud, a lock, and two arms. The stud includes a shank, and the lock includes a frame relative to which the stud is translatable and into which the shank extends. The lock is able to prevent movement of the stud relative to the lock in at least one direction by locking engagement of the shank. The two arms are connected to the lock and the stud such that an angle between the arms depends on a location of the stud relative to the lock. The locking engagement of the shank that prevents movement of the stud relative to the lock in the at least one direction is only possible when the angle between the arms is below a predefined locking threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Evalve, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad J. Abunassar, Jessie A. Garcia, Dylan T. Van Hoven
  • Publication number: 20230009891
    Abstract: Systems and methods for augmenting image data during heart valve repair procedures, such as transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) or transcatheter tricuspid valve repair (TTVr). Image data may be obtained from an imaging device, and may be output to a display with one or more reference markers overlaid on the image data to simplify the visual data. Image data may be augmented or replaced with the reference markers. In some cases, reference markers may provide information about objects that are difficult to see in the image data. In other cases, the reference markers may provide clinical recommendations or feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Evalve, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael F. Wei, Chad J. Abunassar
  • Publication number: 20230011989
    Abstract: Fixation device for fixation of leaflets of a heart valve includes an elongate central member defining a longitudinal axis of the fixation device and first and second arms rotatable about at least one arm hinge point between an open position and a closed position. The fixation device further includes a first gripping element rotatable about a first gripping element axis of rotation to capture a first leaflet of a heart valve between the first gripping element and the first arm. The fixation device further includes a second gripping element rotatable about a second gripping element axis of rotation to capture a second leaflet of a heart valve between the second gripping element and the second arm. At least one of the first gripping element axis of rotation and the second gripping element axis of rotation is variably offset from the arm hinge point by an axis offset distance defined along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventor: Chad Abunassar
  • Patent number: 11534303
    Abstract: Medical delivery system for accessing a tricuspid valve via an inferior vena cava, including an outer guide catheter, an inner guide catheter and an interventional catheter. The first deflection portion of the outer guide catheter is steerable to define a first outer-guide-catheter curve and the second deflection portion of the outer guide catheter is steerable to define a second outer-guide-catheter curve and the first deflection portion of the inner guide catheter is steerable to define a first inner-guide-catheter curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Dylan T. Van Hoven, Michael F. Wei
  • Patent number: 11504064
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to delivery devices and interventional devices configured to enable monitoring of pressure and other hemodynamic properties before, during, and/or after a cardiac procedure. A guide catheter includes a routing lumen or a routing groove for routing a sensor wire to a desired location during a cardiac procedure. A guide catheter includes one or more pressure sensors positioned to provide desired pressure measurements when the guide catheter is deploying an interventional device. An interventional device may also include one or more associated sensors for providing hemodynamic information before, during, and/or after deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Chad J. Abunassar, Brandon W. Chu, Patricia H. Ho, Koji J. Kizuka, Benjamin L. Lee, Tamer M. Mahmoud, Sean A. McNiven, Scott C. Mosher, Santosh V. Prabhu, Lauren G. Troxler, Dylan T. Van Hoven
  • Publication number: 20220361907
    Abstract: Systems and methods for separating native heart valve leaflets attached together by a fixation device. The system has elongate shaft including a proximal end portion, a distal end portion and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween. The elongate shaft is configured for transvascular delivery of the distal end portion to a native heart valve. A balloon is disposed at the distal end portion of the elongate shaft, and the balloon is inflatable from a collapsed condition to an inflated condition. At least one snare lumen extends along at least a portion of the balloon, the at least one snare lumen having an exit port defined therein. A snare is deployable through the exit port from a delivery position within the at least one snare lumen to an extended position extending beyond the exit port. The snare in the extended position is configured to capture the fixation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Philip Osterbauer, Tracee Eidenschink, Ted Dale, Richard Childs, Michael F. Wei
  • Patent number: 11491009
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to repair devices for repair of regurgitant mitral valves. A repair device includes a body having a perimeter defining an upper side and a lower side. An annular groove is disposed along a posterior section of the perimeter of the device and is configured to receive posterior rim tissue of a mitral valve annulus. First and second anchors extend from the body in an anterior direction. The first and second anchors are configured to engage with respective commissures of the mitral valve to assist in securing the repair device in position. The repair device is structured to minimize or eliminate imparting or transmitting radially outward forces along an anterior section so as to avoid imparting forces to the septum to avoid hindering the function of the aortic valve and the left ventricular outflow tract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael F. Wei, Chad J. Abunassar
  • Publication number: 20220346954
    Abstract: Fixation device for fixation of leaflets of a heart valve, the fixation device including a central element defining a central axis. The fixation device further includes a distal portion including at least one arm coupled to the central element, wherein the at least one arm is moveable to a selected position between a fully open position and a fully closed position. The distal portion further includes at least one leg operatively coupled to the at least one arm and configured to move the at least one arm to the selected position between the fully open position and the fully closed position. The at least one arm includes a contact portion configured to engage native heart valve tissue, the contact portion defining a contact portion axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Chad Abunassar, Gabriel Gonzales, Samir Jain, Jill McCoy
  • Patent number: 11484331
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are provided for stabilizing and grasping tissues such as valve leaflets, assessing the grasp of these tissues, approximating and fixating the tissues, and assessing the fixation of the tissues to treat cardiac valve regurgitation, particularly mitral valve regurgitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Eric A. Goldfarb, Troy L. Thornton, Alfred H. Raschdorf, Jaime E. Sarabia, John P. Madden, Ferolyn T. Powell, Brian B. Martin, Sylvia Erickson, Jan Komtebedde, Yen C. Liao
  • Patent number: 11464636
    Abstract: Fixation device for fixation of leaflets of a heart valve includes an elongate central member defining a longitudinal axis of the fixation device and first and second arms rotatable about at least one arm hinge point between an open position and a closed position. The fixation device further includes a first gripping element rotatable about a first gripping element axis of rotation to capture a first leaflet of a heart valve between the first gripping element and the first arm. The fixation device further includes a second gripping element rotatable about a second gripping element axis of rotation to capture a second leaflet of a heart valve between the second gripping element and the second arm. At least one of the first gripping element axis of rotation and the second gripping element axis of rotation is variably offset from the arm hinge point by an axis offset distance defined along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventor: Chad Abunassar
  • Publication number: 20220296248
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods are provided for stabilizing and grasping tissues such as valve leaflets, assessing the grasp of these tissues, approximating and fixating the tissues, and assessing the fixation of the tissues to treat cardiac valve regurgitation, particularly mitral valve regurgitation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: EVALVE, INC.
    Inventors: Chad Abunassar, Louis-Philippe Richer, Jan Mangual, Nikolaos Politis