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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Charles Lee Simpson, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Sulzer Carbomedics Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
623-2 ; 623-3 ;
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for implanting a medical device (12) into a body. The medical device (12) has an expanded state and a collapsed state and is inserted into the body while in the collapsed state. The medical device (12) is positioned proximate a desired implant site (14) in the body, and the medical device (12) is expanded to the expanded state by filling the medical device (12) with a hardenable fluid (18). The hardenable fluid (18) is then hardened such that the medical device (12) is set in the expanded state at the desired implant site (14).