Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Implantable urinary tract valve
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Application No.: US14495002Application Date: 2014-09-24
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Publication No.: US09763762B2Publication Date: 2017-09-19
- Inventor: Xuan K. Wei , Eric H. Bonde , Charles Thomas Bombeck
- Applicant: Medtronic, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Agency: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Main IPC: A61F2/00
- IPC: A61F2/00

Abstract:
A urinary tract valve includes an expandable valve element positionable within a bladder of a patient via a urinary tract of the patient in a collapsed configuration. The expandable valve element is configured to transition from the collapsed configuration to an expanded configuration after being positioned within the bladder of the patient. The expandable valve element includes a ferromagnetic element that facilitates selective control of the expandable valve element with a magnetic field between an open position and a closed position when positioned within the bladder of the patient. In the closed position, the expandable valve element is configured to seal an internal urethral opening of the patient. In the open position, the expandable valve element is configured to allow urine to pass from the bladder of the patient, through an internal urethral opening of the patient and into a urethra of the patient.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150087896A1 IMPLANTABLE URINARY TRACT VALVE Public/Granted day:2015-03-26
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