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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2017
Applicant:
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 5/0076 (2013.01); A61F 5/0089 (2013.01);
Abstract
A stomach lining patch includes a collapsible frame, a membrane covering the collapsible frame, collapsible frame and the membrane providing a collapsed configuration suitable for endoluminal delivery to a stomach of a patient and an expanded configuration suitable for lining an internal surface of a gastric wall of the stomach, and a set of anchoring arms extending from the collapsible frame and being configured to pass through a puncture in the gastric wall and lay flat against an outer surface of the gastric wall when the collapsible frame and the membrane are in an expanded configuration lining the internal surface of the gastric wall.