Patent ID: 11963872
Assignee: MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A delivery device for delivering a stented prosthetic heart valve comprising a valve structure carried by a stent frame configured to self-expand from a collapsed condition to a normal, expanded condition, the delivery device comprising:
an inner shaft forming a lumen;
a spindle associated with the inner shaft, wherein the spindle defines a first hole open to the lumen and an exterior of the spindle;
a first cord slidably disposed within the lumen and extending through the first hole for selectively compressing the stented prosthetic heart valve; and
an embedding feature associated with the spindle for selectively radially embedding a portion of the stented prosthetic heart valve tethered to the spindle in a delivery state; wherein the embedding feature comprises a transition region of a tip body mounted to the spindle and a radially compressible bumper mounted to the transition region, wherein the radially compressible bumper is configured to be radially compressed to embed portions of a distal segment of the stented prosthetic heart valve into an outer surface of the compressible bumper when radially collapsing the stented prosthetic heart valve on the spindle.