Patent ID: 11903830
Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 4:
5. The method of claim 2, wherein when implanted at the tricuspid annulus the plan view shape as seen looking at the inflow side includes the following elements connected in series in a clockwise direction: the first free end located counter-clockwise from the antero-septal commissure, a first segment which extends around part of the anterior leaflet, a second segment which is larger than the first segment corresponding to a remaining part of the anterior leaflet and ending at the postero-septal commissure, a third segment which extends from the postero-septal commissure to part way along the septal leaflet that is smaller than the first segment, and a fourth segment which is smaller than the first segment that terminates in the second free end at a septal point on the tricuspid annulus, the second and third segments extending around a large end of the ovoid shape.