Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Upper stomach gastric implants
- Patent Title (中): 上胃胃植入物
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Application No.: US13470940Application Date: 2012-05-14
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Publication No.: US09398969B2Publication Date: 2016-07-26
- Inventor: Mitchell H. Babkes
- Applicant: Mitchell H. Babkes
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Apollo Endosurgery, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apollo Endosurgery, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.
- Main IPC: A61M29/00
- IPC: A61M29/00 ; A61F5/00 ; A61B17/12

Abstract:
A variety of passive intragastric implant devices for obesity treatment are disclosed. Such passive devices may not autonomously change shape, but instead react within the stomach to induce satiety. The devices may provide slowed entry into the stomach, thus reducing the intake capacity. Additionally, the devices may contact areas within the stomach, such as the cardia surrounding the esophageal sphincter, to stimulate satiety-inducing nerves. Some devices combine two or more of these satiety-inducing features. Methods of implant are disclosed including compressing the devices within a delivery tube and transorally advancing the devices through the esophagus to be deployed within the stomach. Removal of the devices occurs in the reverse. The implants are formed of materials that permit the implant to be compressed into a substantially linear transoral delivery configuration and that will resist degradation over a period of at least six months within the stomach.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120323160A1 UPPER STOMACH GASTRIC IMPLANTS Public/Granted day:2012-12-20
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