# US 2025/0082923 A1 · Intraluminal modular powered medical system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2025/0082923 A1 - Document ID: US20250082923A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 18/892,977 - Filed: 2024-09-23 - Published: 2025-03-13 - Earliest claimed: 2022-03-23 - Applicants: Puzzle Medical Devices Inc. - Inventors: Gabriel GEORGES; François TRUDEAU; Yves-Antoine CRÊTE - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250082923A1 ## CPC - A61M 60/81: Pump housings - A61M 60/878: Electrical connections within the patient's body - A61M 60/13: by means of a catheter allowing explantation, e.g. catheter pumps temporarily introduced via the vascular system - A61M 60/178: drawing blood from a ventricle and returning the blood to the arterial system via a cannula external to the ventricle, e.g. left or right ventricular assist devices - A61M 60/216: including a rotating member acting on the blood, e.g. impeller - A61M 60/237: the blood flow through the rotating member having mainly axial components, e.g. axial flow pumps - A61M 60/861: Connections or anchorings for connecting or anchoring pumps or pumping devices to parts of the patient's body - A61M 60/865: Devices for guiding or inserting pumps or pumping devices into the patient's body - A61M 60/871: Energy supply devices; Converters therefor - A61M 60/873: specially adapted for wireless or transcutaneous energy transfer [TET], e.g. inductive charging - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} ## Abstract An intraluminal modular powered medical system includes: an intraluminal dock including at least one dock electrical connector configured to receive power from a power source; and an intraluminal medical device including at least one device electrical connector configured to intraluminally electrically connect to the at least one dock electrical connector for receiving power therefrom. The intraluminal dock and the intraluminal medical device are implantable, assemblable, and operable intraluminally. The intraluminal dock includes a pump dock, and the intraluminal medical device includes a pump. Also disclosed are methods of implantation and explantation of the intraluminal modular powered medical system. ## Claims ### Claim at position 1 -63. (canceled) ### Claim 64 A powered modular implantable medical device system, comprising: a first implantable medical device that includes an electrical connector configured to receive power from a power source; and a second implantable medical device that includes an electrical connector configured to intracorporeally connect the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device. ### Claim 65 (depends on 64) The system according to claim 64, wherein the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the second implantable medical device are connectable together for intracorporeally operating the second implantable medical device through the first implantable medical device. ### Claim 66 (depends on 64) The system according to claim 64, wherein the first implantable medical device and the second implantable medical device are arrangeable in a slidable relationship relative to each other for intracorporeally connecting the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the second implantable medical device together. ### Claim 67 (depends on 64) The system according to claim 64, wherein the first implantable medical device and the second implantable medical device are arrangeable in a slidable relationship relative to each other for intracorporeally disconnecting the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the second implantable medical device from each other. ### Claim 68 (depends on 64) The system according to claim 64, wherein the second implantable medical device comprises a control element configured to establish an intracorporeal connection between the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the second implantable medical device. ### Claim 69 (depends on 68) The system according to claim 68, wherein the control element is configured to be manipulable by an operator for establishing the intracorporeal connection. ### Claim 70 (depends on 69) The system according to claim 69, wherein the control element is configured to be extracorporeally manipulable by an operator for establishing the intracorporeal connection. ### Claim 71 (depends on 68) The system according to claim 68, wherein the control element is configured to be pullable relative to the first implantable medical device for establishing the intracorporeal connection. ### Claim 72 (depends on 68) The system according to claim 68, wherein the control element is further configured to disconnect the intracorporeal connection. ### Claim 73 (depends on 72) The system according to claim 72, wherein the control element is configured to be pushable relative to the first implantable medical device for disconnecting the intracorporeal connection. ### Claim 74 (depends on 68) The system according to claim 68, wherein the control element is configured to extend from the second implantable medical device. ### Claim 75 (depends on 74) The system according to claim 74, wherein the control element is configured to extend from the electrical connector of the second implantable medical device. ### Claim 76 (depends on 68) The system according to claim 68, wherein the control element is configured to be removably attachable to the second implantable medical device. ### Claim 77 (depends on 68) The system according to claim 68, wherein the control element is arrangeable along the first implantable medical device. ### Claim 78 (depends on 64) The system according to claim 64, further comprising a seal configured to sealingly engage a cavity of the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device. ### Claim 79 (depends on 78) The system according to claim 78, wherein the seal is further configured to receive the control element therethrough. ### Claim 80 (depends on 79) The system according to claim 79, wherein the seal is further configured to move inside the cavity upon connection of the electrical connector of the second implantable medical device to the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device. ### Claim 81 (depends on 80) The system according to claim 80, wherein the cavity defines a fluid flush port configured to evacuate a fluid from the cavity upon connection of the electrical connector of the second implantable medical device to the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device. ### Claim 82 (depends on 68) The system according to claim 68, wherein the first implantable medical device comprises a control element passage guide configured to slidably receive the control element therethrough. ### Claim 83 (depends on 82) The system according to claim 82, wherein the first implantable medical device further comprises a control component coupled to the control element passage guide, the control component being configured to at least partially slidably receive the control element therethrough. ### Claim 84 (depends on 83) The system according to claim 83, wherein the control component comprises an electrical conductor electrically coupled to the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and electrically connectable to the power source. ### Claim 85 (depends on 64) The system according to claim 64, wherein the first implantable medical device and the second implantable medical device are transcatheterally implantable in vivo. ### Claim 86 (depends on 85) The system according to claim 85, wherein the first implantable medical device is a blood pump dock, and the second implantable medical device is a blood pump. ### Claim 87 (depends on 64) The system according to claim 64, wherein the electrical connector of the second implantable medical device is configured to intraluminally connect the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device. ### Claim 88 (depends on 64) The system according to claim 64, wherein the power source is a wireless power source, and the first implantable medical device is configured to wirelessly receive power from the wireless power source and to direct such power to the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device. ### Claim 89 (depends on 64) The system according to claim 64, further comprising an additional second implantable medical device that includes an electrical connector, wherein the first implantable medical device further includes another electrical connector configured to receive power from the power source, the electrical connector of the additional second implantable medical device being configured to intravascularly connect the other electrical connector of the first implantable medical device. ### Claim 90 (depends on 89) The system according to claim 89, wherein the other electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the additional second implantable medical device are connectable together for intravascularly operating the additional second implantable medical device through the first implantable medical device. ### Claim 91 (depends on 90) The system according to claim 90, wherein the first implantable medical device and the additional second implantable medical device are arrangeable in a slidable relationship relative to each other for intravascularly connecting the other electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the additional second implantable medical device together, and for intracorporeally disconnecting the other electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the additional second implantable medical device from each other. ### Claim 92 (depends on 91) The system according to claim 91, wherein the additional second implantable medical device comprises a control element configured to establish an intracorporeal connection between the other electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the additional second implantable medical device. ### Claim 93 (depends on 92) The system according to claim 92, wherein the control element of the additional second implantable medical device is configured to be extracorporeally pullable, relative to the first implantable medical device, by an operator for intravascularly connecting the other electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the additional second implantable medical device together, and is further configured to be extracorporeally pushable, relative to the first implantable medical device, by the operator for intravascularly disconnecting the other electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the additional second implantable medical device from each other. ### Claim 94 (depends on 93) The system according to claim 93, wherein each of the second implantable medical device and the additional second implantable medical device is dockable to and undockable from the first implantable medical device. ### Claim 95 (depends on 94) The system according to claim 94, wherein the first implantable medical device is a transcatheter blood pump dock, and each of the second implantable medical device and the additional second implantable medical device is a respective transcatheter blood pump. ### Claim 96 A method of implanting a powered modular implantable medical device system to an intracorporeal implantation site of a subject, the method comprising: delivering the powered modular implantable medical device system to the intracorporeal implantation site; the powered modular implantable medical device system comprising a first implantable medical device having an electrical connector, and a second implantable medical device having an electrical connector configured to intracorporeally connect the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device; and intraluminally connecting the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the second implantable medical device together. ### Claim 97 A method of explanting a powered modular implantable medical device system from an intracorporeal implantation site of a subject, the powered modular implantable medical device system comprising a first implantable medical device having an electrical connector, and a second implantable medical device having an electrical connector intracorporeally connected to the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device, the method comprising: intraluminally disconnecting the electrical connector of the first implantable medical device and the electrical connector of the second implantable medical device from each other; and retrieving the first implantable medical device and the second implantable medical device from the intracorporeal implantation site.