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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2017
Applicant:
Spiration Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
Jean-Martin Baillargeon, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Spiration, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/122 (2006.01); A61B 17/068 (2006.01); A61B 17/064 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/10 (2006.01); A61B 17/128 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/1227 (2013.01); A61B 17/064 (2013.01); A61B 17/068 (2013.01); A61B 17/10 (2013.01); A61B 17/1285 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0034 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00477 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00526 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00818 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00862 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00867 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0645 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0649 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tissue fastening tool fastens a first biological tissue to a second biological tissue. The tissue fastening tool is made of two elastic wire rods, each shape set into a coil shape. Each of elastic wire rods are separately shape set, then ends of the rods are connected such that the second elastic wire rod coils back over the first elastic wire rod.