Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Shape memory filament for suture management
- Patent Title (中): 形状记忆丝为缝线管理
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Application No.: US11309830Application Date: 2006-10-05
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Publication No.: US09072514B2Publication Date: 2015-07-07
- Inventor: Thomas P. Knapp , Bernhard Uihlein , Stanley O. Thompson , Timothy J. Coonahan , Jon Taylor
- Applicant: Thomas P. Knapp , Bernhard Uihlein , Stanley O. Thompson , Timothy J. Coonahan , Jon Taylor
- Agency: Patent Law Offices of Michael E. Woods
- Agent Michael E. Woods
- Main IPC: A61B17/04
- IPC: A61B17/04 ; A61B17/06 ; A61B17/00

Abstract:
A member of a rigid flexible elastic material, the member including a body portion and an aperture portion with the member adapted for delivery through an axial longitudinal channel of a percutaneous delivery subsystem, the aperture portion including an expanded mode having a lateral dimension greater than an inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion extends outside the channel and a collapsed mode wherein the lateral dimension is not greater than the inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion is within the channel, the channel including a first axial opening and a second axial opening with the aperture portion transitioning from the expanded mode to the collapsed mode when inserted into the openings and the aperture transitioning from the collapsed mode to the expanded mode when exiting from the openings.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080086171A1 SHAPE MEMORY FILAMENT FOR SUTURE MANAGEMENT Public/Granted day:2008-04-10
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