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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2023
G.i. Windows, Inc., Westwood, MA (US);
Dane T. Seddon, Boston, MA (US);
G.I. Windows, Inc., Westwood, MA (US);
Abstract
A magnetic compression anastomosis device comprises a plurality of interconnected vertebrae including a first vertebra and a second vertebra, wherein each of the first vertebra and the second vertebra is a multipiece vertebra comprising a magnet at least partially encapsulated by a vertebra skin, and wherein the first vertebra and the second vertebra are interconnected by a cylindrical roller and at least one flex element, the roller and the at least one flex element at least partially encapsulated by the first vertebra skin and the second vertebra skin, the roller configured to allow the first and second vertebra to pivot through a predetermined range of rotation in a device plane between at least a delivery configuration and an assembled configuration while constraining movement in other degrees of freedom, the at least one flex element biasing the first and second vertebra toward the assembled configuration.