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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2007
Joseph H. Schulman, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Yitzhak Zilberman, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Kate E. Purnell, Valencia, CA (US);
Martin J. Vogel, Valencia, CA (US);
Adam Vogel, Legal Representative, Valencia, CA (US);
Joseph H. Schulman, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Yitzhak Zilberman, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Kate E. Purnell, Valencia, CA (US);
Martin J. Vogel, Valencia, CA (US);
Adam Vogel, legal representative, Valencia, CA (US);
Alfred E. Mann Foundation For Scientific Research, Santa Clarita, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of removing an implantable electronic microdevice by an integral removal loop or circumferential ring to facilitate removal of the implanted microdevice without additional surgery. The device is removed by pulling it along the surgically created implantation path. Optionally a radio-opaque tether provides a method of locating the implantable microdevice without additional surgery and attachment of one end of the tether to a radio-opaque marker provides a method of locating the end of the tether to facilitate removal of the implantable microdevice from living tissue.