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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2001
Applicant:
Lawrence Crainich, Charlestown, NH (US);
Inventor:
Lawrence Crainich, Charlestown, NH (US);
Assignee:
Design Standards Corporation, Charlestown, NH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A tissue grasping and clipping/stapling device includes a grasping jaw assembly for grasping tissue, and a fastener delivery and forming assembly adapted for applying a fastener to tissue grasped with the jaw assembly. The jaw assembly has a spring loaded closing mechanism to secure different thicknesses of tissue and the fastener feeding and applying mechanism is adaptable to different extents of closing of the jaw assembly. The device is particularly well suited for miniature clipping/stapling such as anastomosis of coronary blood vessels and the like.