Patent ID: 9693861
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: A61F

Claim:
1. A prosthetic heart valve, comprising: a collapsible and expandable stent having an inflow end and an outflow end, the stent including a plurality of commissure attachment features and a plurality of struts defining a plurality of cells, and the stent extending in a length direction from the inflow end to the outflow end; and a collapsible and expandable valve assembly including a plurality of leaflets connected to the plurality of commissure attachment features; each commissure attachment feature including a body having a proximal end, a distal end closer to the outflow end than the proximal end, and a plurality of eyelets including a selected eyelet having a first rectangular section with a first width in a circumferential direction of the stent and a second rectangular section with a second width in the circumferential direction of the stent smaller than the first width, the selected eyelet including a first interior edge coextensive with a first edge of the first rectangular section and a second interior edge coextensive with a second edge of the second rectangular section.