Patents by Inventor Sean Chow

Sean Chow has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10076638
    Abstract: In one representative embodiment, a steerable catheter device comprises a shaft comprising a proximal portion, a distal portion, and a pull-wire lumen that extends at least partially through the proximal and distal portions. A pull wire extends through the pull-wire lumen and has a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, wherein the distal end portion of pull wire is fixed to the distal end portion of the shaft. An adjustment mechanism is operatively connected to the proximal end portion of the pull wire and configured to increase and decrease tension in the pull wire to adjust the curvature of the distal portion of the shaft. An axially non-compressible pull-wire sleeve extends co-axially through the pull-wire lumen and over the pull wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Tri D. Tran, Sean Chow, Ronaldo C. Cayabyab
  • Publication number: 20180177592
    Abstract: Disclosed replacement heart valves can be designed to be delivered to a native valve site while crimped on a delivery catheter. The crimped profile of the replacement valve can be minimized by, for example, separating a frame or stent structure from a leaflet structure, along the axial direction. Disclosed replacement valves can be transitioned from a delivery configuration, in which the crimped profile can be minimized, to an operating configuration. The replacement valve can be fully assembled in both the delivery and operating configurations. In some embodiments, the leaflets can be positioned outside of the stent in the delivery configuration, and positioned inside of the stent lumen in the operating configuration. Disclosed replacement valves can include a flexible sleeve coupling the leaflets to the stent and facilitating the transition to the operating configuration. Methods of implanting said replacement valves are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Netanel Benichou, Stanton J. Rowe, Sean Chow
  • Patent number: 9901446
    Abstract: Disclosed replacement heart valves can be designed to be delivered to a native valve site while crimped on a delivery catheter. The crimped profile of the replacement valve can be minimized by, for example, separating a frame or stent structure from a leaflet structure, along the axial direction. Disclosed replacement valves can be transitioned from a delivery configuration, in which the crimped profile can be minimized, to an operating configuration. The replacement valve can be fully assembled in both the delivery and operating configurations. In some embodiments, the leaflets can be positioned outside of the stent in the delivery configuration, and positioned inside of the stent lumen in the operating configuration. Disclosed replacement valves can include a flexible sleeve coupling the leaflets to the stent and facilitating the transition to the operating configuration. Methods of implanting said replacement valves are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Netanel Benichou, Stanton J. Rowe, Sean Chow
  • Publication number: 20180036124
    Abstract: A delivery apparatus for a prosthetic heart valve includes a shaft, an inner balloon, and an outer balloon. The shaft has a lumen extending from a proximal end portion to a distal end portion and a plurality of openings formed in the distal end portion. The shaft is configured such that a fluid can flow through the lumen and the openings. The inner balloon has end portions and a center portion disposed between the end portions. The inner balloon is mounted on the distal end portion of the shaft and is in fluid communication with the openings of the shaft. When the inner balloon is inflated with the fluid, the end portions expand farther radially outwardly than the center portion. The outer balloon is mounted to the shaft and disposed over the inner balloon. The outer balloon is configured to fully expand after the inner balloon at least partially expands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Tri D. Tran, Ronaldo C. Cayabyab, David J. Evans, Sean Chow, Christopher Chia, Tamir S. Levi
  • Patent number: 9795477
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods from delivering prosthetic devices, such as prosthetic heart valves, through the body and into the heart for implantation therein. The prosthetic devices delivered with the delivery systems disclosed herein are, for example, radially expandable from a radially compressed state mounted on the delivery system to a radially expanded state for implantation using an inflatable balloon of the delivery system. Exemplary delivery routes through the body and into the heart include transfemoral routes, transapical routes, and transaortic routes, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Tri D. Tran, Ronaldo C. Cayabyab, David J. Evans, Sean Chow, Christopher Chia
  • Publication number: 20160346084
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices for improving coaption of the mitral valve leaflets to reduce or eliminate mitral valve regurgitation. The devices may be used to perform mitral valve annuloplasty, or to serve as a docking station for a transcatheter prosthetic heart valve. The various embodiments of devices are configured for percutaneous and, in some cases, transvascular delivery. Delivery systems useful for routing the devices to the mitral valve are also disclosed, including catheters, balloons and/or mechanical expansion systems. The devices themselves include at least one tissue penetrating member. Methods of delivery include partially embedding the devices in the mitral valve annulus via at least one tissue penetrating member. Tissue penetrating members may be embedded into the tissue in a simultaneous or a nearly simultaneous fashion. Upon embedding, the devices employ various expansion and/or contraction features to adjust the mitral valve diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: David M. Taylor, Tri D. Tran, Sean Chow, David L. Hauser, Pui Tong Ho, Alexander H. Cooper
  • Publication number: 20160235532
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods from delivering prosthetic devices, such as prosthetic heart valves, through the body and into the heart for implantation therein. The prosthetic devices delivered with the delivery systems disclosed herein are, for example, radially expandable from a radially compressed state mounted on the delivery system to a radially expanded state for implantation using an inflatable balloon of the delivery system. Exemplary delivery routes through the body and into the heart include transfemoral routes, transapical routes, and transaortic routes, among others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Tri D. Tran, Ronaldo C. Cayabyab, David J. Evans, Sean Chow, Christopher Chia
  • Publication number: 20160158497
    Abstract: In one representative embodiment, a steerable catheter device comprises a shaft comprising a proximal portion, a distal portion, and a pull-wire lumen that extends at least partially through the proximal and distal portions. A pull wire extends through the pull-wire lumen and has a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, wherein the distal end portion of pull wire is fixed to the distal end portion of the shaft. An adjustment mechanism is operatively connected to the proximal end portion of the pull wire and configured to increase and decrease tension in the pull wire to adjust the curvature of the distal portion of the shaft. An axially non-compressible pull-wire sleeve extends co-axially through the pull-wire lumen and over the pull wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Inventors: Tri D. Tran, Sean Chow, Ronaldo C. Cayabyab
  • Patent number: 9339384
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods from delivering prosthetic devices, such as prosthetic heart valves, through the body and into the heart for implantation therein. The prosthetic devices delivered with the delivery systems disclosed herein are, for example, radially expandable from a radially compressed state mounted on the delivery system to a radially expanded state for implantation using an inflatable balloon of the delivery system. Exemplary delivery routes through the body and into the heart include transfemoral routes, transapical routes, and transaortic routes, among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Tri D. Tran, Ronaldo Cayabyab, David J. Evans, Sean Chow, Christopher Chia
  • Publication number: 20140324160
    Abstract: Disclosed replacement heart valves can be designed to be delivered to a native valve site while crimped on a delivery catheter. The crimped profile of the replacement valve can be minimized by, for example, separating a frame or stent structure from a leaflet structure, along the axial direction. Disclosed replacement valves can be transitioned from a delivery configuration, in which the crimped profile can be minimized, to an operating configuration. The replacement valve can be fully assembled in both the delivery and operating configurations. In some embodiments, the leaflets can be positioned outside of the stent in the delivery configuration, and positioned inside of the stent lumen in the operating configuration. Disclosed replacement valves can include a flexible sleeve coupling the leaflets to the stent and facilitating the transition to the operating configuration. Methods of implanting said replacement valves are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Netanel Benichou, Stanton J. Rowe, Sean Chow
  • Patent number: 8795354
    Abstract: Disclosed replacement heart valves can be designed to be delivered to a native valve site while crimped on a delivery catheter. The crimped profile of the replacement valve can be minimized by, for example, separating a frame or stent structure from a leaflet structure, along the axial direction. Disclosed replacement valves can be transitioned from a delivery configuration, in which the crimped profile can be minimized, to an operating configuration. The replacement valve can be fully assembled in both the delivery and operating configurations. In some embodiments, the leaflets can be positioned outside of the stent in the delivery configuration, and positioned inside of the stent lumen in the operating configuration. Disclosed replacement valves can include a flexible sleeve coupling the leaflets to the stent and facilitating the transition to the operating configuration. Methods of implanting said replacement valves are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: Netanel Benichou, Stanton J. Rowe, Sean Chow
  • Publication number: 20130030519
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods from delivering prosthetic devices, such as prosthetic heart valves, through the body and into the heart for implantation therein. The prosthetic devices delivered with the delivery systems disclosed herein are, for example, radially expandable from a radially compressed state mounted on the delivery system to a radially expanded state for implantation using an inflatable balloon of the delivery system. Exemplary delivery routes through the body and into the heart include transfemoral routes, transapical routes, and transaortic routes, among others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tri D. Tran, Ronaldo Cayabyab, David J. Evans, Sean Chow, Christopher Chia
  • Publication number: 20110218619
    Abstract: Disclosed replacement heart valves can be designed to be delivered to a native valve site while crimped on a delivery catheter. The crimped profile of the replacement valve can be minimized by, for example, separating a frame or stent structure from a leaflet structure, along the axial direction. Disclosed replacement valves can be transitioned from a delivery configuration, in which the crimped profile can be minimized, to an operating configuration. The replacement valve can be fully assembled in both the delivery and operating configurations. In some embodiments, the leaflets can be positioned outside of the stent in the delivery configuration, and positioned inside of the stent lumen in the operating configuration. Disclosed replacement valves can include a flexible sleeve coupling the leaflets to the stent and facilitating the transition to the operating configuration. Methods of implanting said replacement valves are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Netanel Benichou, Stanton J. Rowe, Sean Chow
  • Publication number: 20080015541
    Abstract: Embolectomy catheters, rapid exchange microcatheters, systems and methods for removing clots or other obstructive matter (e.g., thrombus, thromboemboli, embolic fragments of atherosclerotic plaque, foreign objects, etc.) from blood vessels. This invention is particularly useable for percutaneous removal of thromboemboli or other obstructive matter from small blood vessels of the brain, during an evolving stroke or period of cerebral ischemia. In some embodiments, the embolectomy catheters of this invention are advanceable with or over a guidewire which has been pre-inserted through or around the clot. Also, in some embodiments, the embolectomy catheters include clot removal devices which are deployable from the catheter after the catheter has been advanced at least partially through the clot. The clot removal device may include a deployable wire nest that is designed to prevent a blood clot from passing therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Robert Rosenbluth, George Green, Brian Cox, Thomas Sternweiler, Sean Chow, Richard Monetti