Patents by Inventor Uy D. Trinh
Uy D. Trinh 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).
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Publication number: 20240091007Abstract: Pinch devices and access systems that can be used to secure a prosthetic heart valve to a heart valve annulus and to treat valvular insufficiency. A pinch device can be a separate expandable element from the prosthetic heart valve that is first advanced to the annulus and deployed, after which an expandable prosthetic heart valve can be advanced to within the annulus and deployed. The two elements can clamp/pinch the heart valve leaflets to hold the prosthetic heart valve in place. The pinch device can have a flexible, expandable annular frame. A combined delivery system can deliver the pinch device and prosthetic heart valve with just a single access point and aid more accurate coaxial deployment. The pinch device can be mounted near distal end of an access sheath, and a catheter for delivering the prosthetic heart valve can be passed through a lumen of the same access sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Hamid Rafi, Russell T. Joseph, Robert Bowes, Uy D. Trinh, Emil Karapetian, Gregory Bak-Boychuk
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Patent number: 11844692Abstract: Pinch devices and access systems that can be used to secure a prosthetic heart valve to a heart valve annulus and to treat valvular insufficiency. A pinch device can be a separate expandable element from the prosthetic heart valve that is first advanced to the annulus and deployed, after which an expandable prosthetic heart valve can be advanced to within the annulus and deployed. The two elements can clamp/pinch the heart valve leaflets to hold the prosthetic heart valve in place. The pinch device can have a flexible, expandable annular frame. A combined delivery system can deliver the pinch device and prosthetic heart valve with just a single access point and aid more accurate coaxial deployment. The pinch device can be mounted near distal end of an access sheath, and a catheter for delivering the prosthetic heart valve can be passed through a lumen of the same access sheath.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATIONInventors: Hamid Rafi, Russell T. Joseph, Robert Bowes, Uy D. Trinh, Emil Karapetian, Gregory Bak-Boychuk
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Publication number: 20230069245Abstract: Aspects of an expandable sheath can be used in conjunction with a catheter assembly to introduce a prosthetic device, such as a heart valve, into a patient. Such aspects can minimize trauma to the vessel by allowing for temporary expansion of a portion of the introducer sheath to accommodate the delivery apparatus, followed by a return to the original diameter once the prosthetic device passes through. Some aspects can include a sheath with a variable diameter inner liner wound in a spiral slidable configuration and an outer layer. The disclosed sheath is configured to expand from a predetermined rest diameter dr to an expanded diameter de during application of a radial outward force by passage of a medical device through the sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: Sonny Tran, Jeong Soo Lee, Nasser William Saleh, Ilan Tamir, Daniel J. Scherb, Maxwell Harrison Fine, Alpana Kiran Gowdar, Tri D. Tran, Neal H. Avery, Sarah Ghanbari, Uy D. Trinh, Sovanpheap Mak, Erik Bulman, Raymond Mercado
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Publication number: 20220168096Abstract: Pinch devices and access systems that can be used to secure a prosthetic heart valve to a heart valve annulus and to treat valvular insufficiency. A pinch device can be a separate expandable element from the prosthetic heart valve that is first advanced to the annulus and deployed, after which an expandable prosthetic heart valve can be advanced to within the annulus and deployed. The two elements can clamp/pinch the heart valve leaflets to hold the prosthetic heart valve in place. The pinch device can have a flexible, expandable annular frame. A combined delivery system can deliver the pinch device and prosthetic heart valve with just a single access point and aid more accurate coaxial deployment. The pinch device can be mounted near distal end of an access sheath, and a catheter for delivering the prosthetic heart valve can be passed through a lumen of the same access sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Hamid Rafi, Russell T. Joseph, Robert Bowes, Uy D. Trinh, Emil Karapetian, Gregory Bak-Boychuk
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Patent number: 11253361Abstract: Pinch devices and access systems that can be used to secure a prosthetic heart valve to a heart valve annulus and to treat valvular insufficiency. A pinch device can be a separate expandable element from the prosthetic heart valve that is first advanced to the annulus and deployed, after which an expandable prosthetic heart valve can be advanced to within the annulus and deployed. The two elements can clamp/pinch the heart valve leaflets to hold the prosthetic heart valve in place. The pinch device can have a flexible, expandable annular frame. A combined delivery system can deliver the pinch device and prosthetic heart valve with just a single access point and aid more accurate coaxial deployment. The pinch device can be mounted near distal end of an access sheath, and a catheter for delivering the prosthetic heart valve can be passed through a lumen of the same access sheath.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences CorporationInventors: Hamid Rafi, Russell T. Joseph, Robert Bowes, Uy D. Trinh, Emil Karapetian, Gregory Bak-Boychuk
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Publication number: 20220000618Abstract: Disclosed embodiments of introducer devices provide hemostatic sealing and allow a delivery catheter to be inserted through the introducer seals without the use of a separate loader device that covers a medical device that is mounted on the catheter. Some disclosed introducers comprise a housing, a distal sheath extending distally from the housing and adapted to be inserted into a patient's vasculature, a distal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing and a proximal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing, and a slidable tube positioned within the housing that is movable longitudinally relative to the distal hemostatic seal between a proximal position and a distal position, wherein in the proximal position a distal end of the tube is positioned proximal to the distal hemostatic seal with the distal hemostatic seal closed, and wherein in the distal position the distal end of the tube extends through the distal hemostatic seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: Edwards Lifesciences CorporationInventors: Brian C. Gray, Tung T. Le, Andrew Oien, Sonny Tran, Thanh Huy Le, Robert Bowes, Maria L. Saravia, Uy D. Trinh, Hamid Rafi, Alejandro J. Froimovich Rosenberg
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Publication number: 20220000619Abstract: A delivery assembly comprises a delivery apparatus and a prosthetic valve releasably connected to a cord-retaining device of the delivery apparatus by a plurality of cords or tethers. The cords desirably have a multi-stranded construction formed from a plurality of strands of material. The multi-stranded construction can be, for example, a braided construction, a twisted construction, or a whip-stitch construction. The multi-stranded construction can include integral openings along opposing end portions of each cord. Each cord can extend through an aperture in an apex of the frame of the prosthetic valve or around an apex with one end portion of the cord being retained on the cord-retaining device and another end portion of the cord being retained on a slideable release member of the delivery apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Kevin D. Rupp, Alyssa Joy Gross, Jun Liu, Hamid Rafi, Chambory Chhe, Uy D. Trinh, Duc Hong Nguyen
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Patent number: 11123188Abstract: Disclosed embodiments of introducer devices provide hemostatic sealing and allow a delivery catheter to be inserted through the introducer seals without the use of a separate loader device that covers a medical device that is mounted on the catheter. Some disclosed introducers comprise a housing, a distal sheath extending distally from the housing and adapted to be inserted into a patient's vasculature, a distal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing and a proximal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing, and a slidable tube positioned within the housing that is movable longitudinally relative to the distal hemostatic seal between a proximal position and a distal position, wherein in the proximal position a distal end of the tube is positioned proximal to the distal hemostatic seal with the distal hemostatic seal closed, and wherein in the distal position the distal end of the tube extends through the distal hemostatic seal.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences CorporationInventors: Brian C. Gray, Tung T. Le, Andrew Oien, Sonny Tran, Thanh Huy Le, Robert Bowes, Maria L. Saravia, Uy D. Trinh, Hamid Rafi, Alejandro J. Froimovich Rosenberg
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Publication number: 20190328512Abstract: Pinch devices and access systems that can be used to secure a prosthetic heart valve to a heart valve annulus and to treat valvular insufficiency. A pinch device can be a separate expandable element from the prosthetic heart valve that is first advanced to the annulus and deployed, after which an expandable prosthetic heart valve can be advanced to within the annulus and deployed. The two elements can clamp/pinch the heart valve leaflets to hold the prosthetic heart valve in place. The pinch device can have a flexible, expandable annular frame. A combined delivery system can deliver the pinch device and prosthetic heart valve with just a single access point and aid more accurate coaxial deployment. The pinch device can be mounted near distal end of an access sheath, and a catheter for delivering the prosthetic heart valve can be passed through a lumen of the same access sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Hamid Rafi, Russell T. Joseph, Robert Bowes, Uy D. Trinh, Emil Karapetian, Gregory Bak-Boychuk
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Patent number: 10357361Abstract: Pinch devices and access systems that can be used to secure a prosthetic heart valve to a heart valve annulus and to treat valvular insufficiency. A pinch device can be a separate expandable element from the prosthetic heart valve that is first advanced to the annulus and deployed, after which an expandable prosthetic heart valve can be advanced to within the annulus and deployed. The two elements can clamp/pinch the heart valve leaflets to hold the prosthetic heart valve in place. The pinch device can have a flexible, expandable annular frame. A combined delivery system can deliver the pinch device and prosthetic heart valve with just a single access point and aid more accurate coaxial deployment. The pinch device can be mounted near distal end of an access sheath, and a catheter for delivering the prosthetic heart valve can be passed through a lumen of the same access sheath.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences CorporationInventors: Hamid Rafi, Russell T. Joseph, Robert Bowes, Uy D. Trinh, Emil Karapetian, Gregory Bak-Boychuk
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Publication number: 20190105155Abstract: Disclosed embodiments of introducer devices provide hemostatic sealing and allow a delivery catheter to be inserted through the introducer seals without the use of a separate loader device that covers a medical device that is mounted on the catheter. Some disclosed introducers comprise a housing, a distal sheath extending distally from the housing and adapted to be inserted into a patient's vasculature, a distal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing and a proximal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing, and a slidable tube positioned within the housing that is movable longitudinally relative to the distal hemostatic seal between a proximal position and a distal position, wherein in the proximal position a distal end of the tube is positioned proximal to the distal hemostatic seal with the distal hemostatic seal closed, and wherein in the distal position the distal end of the tube extends through the distal hemostatic seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Brian C. Gray, Tung T. Le, Andrew Oien, Sonny Tran, Thanh Huy Le, Robert Bowes, Maria L. Saravia, Uy D. Trinh, Hamid Rafi, Alejandro J. Froimovich Rosenberg
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Patent number: 10154904Abstract: Disclosed embodiments of introducer devices provide hemostatic sealing and allow a delivery catheter to be inserted through the introducer seals without the use of a separate loader device that covers a medical device that is mounted on the catheter. Some disclosed introducers comprise a housing, a distal sheath extending distally from the housing and adapted to be inserted into a patient's vasculature, a distal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing and a proximal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing, and a slidable tube positioned within the housing that is movable longitudinally relative to the distal hemostatic seal between a proximal position and a distal position, wherein in the proximal position a distal end of the tube is positioned proximal to the distal hemostatic seal with the distal hemostatic seal closed, and wherein in the distal position the distal end of the tube extends through the distal hemostatic seal.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences CorporationInventors: Brian C. Gray, Tung T. Le, Andrew Oien, Sonny Tran, Thanh Huy Le, Robert Bowes, Maria L. Saravia, Uy D. Trinh, Hamid Rafi, Alejandro J. Froimovich Rosenberg
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Publication number: 20180071085Abstract: Pinch devices and access systems that can be used to secure a prosthetic heart valve to a heart valve annulus and to treat valvular insufficiency. A pinch device can be a separate expandable element from the prosthetic heart valve that is first advanced to the annulus and deployed, after which an expandable prosthetic heart valve can be advanced to within the annulus and deployed. The two elements can clamp/pinch the heart valve leaflets to hold the prosthetic heart valve in place. The pinch device can have a flexible, expandable annular frame. A combined delivery system can deliver the pinch device and prosthetic heart valve with just a single access point and aid more accurate coaxial deployment. The pinch device can be mounted near distal end of an access sheath, and a catheter for delivering the prosthetic heart valve can be passed through a lumen of the same access sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Hamid Rafi, Russell T. Joseph, Robert Bowes, Uy D. Trinh, Emil Karapetian, Gregory Bak-Boychuk
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Publication number: 20150305863Abstract: Disclosed embodiments of introducer devices provide hemostatic sealing and allow a delivery catheter to be inserted through the introducer seals without the use of a separate loader device that covers a medical device that is mounted on the catheter. Some disclosed introducers comprise a housing, a distal sheath extending distally from the housing and adapted to be inserted into a patient's vasculature, a distal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing and a proximal hemostatic seal mounted within the housing, and a slidable tube positioned within the housing that is movable longitudinally relative to the distal hemostatic seal between a proximal position and a distal position, wherein in the proximal position a distal end of the tube is positioned proximal to the distal hemostatic seal with the distal hemostatic seal closed, and wherein in the distal position the distal end of the tube extends through the distal hemostatic seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Inventors: Brian C. Gray, Tung T. Le, Andrew Oien, Sonny Tran, Thanh Huy Le, Robert Bowes, Maria L. Saravia, Uy D. Trinh, Hamid Rafi, Alejandro J. Froimovich Rosenberg