Patent 10413403 was granted and assigned to Boston Scientific on September, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A prosthetic heart valve leaflet is composed of a self-reinforced composite (SRC) structure that includes a first layer. The first layer can include a first plurality of fused fibers composed of a first polymeric material in which each fiber is fused to at least one adjacent fiber by a reflowed fiber domain region.