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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2010
Steve Chen, Westfield, IN (US);
Ryan Dempsey, Westfield, IN (US);
Jeffrey Miller, East Haven, CT (US);
Amy Overby, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Steve Chen, Westfield, IN (US);
Ryan Dempsey, Westfield, IN (US);
Jeffrey Miller, East Haven, CT (US);
Amy Overby, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Cook Biotech Incorporated, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Abstract
Described, in certain inventive embodiments, are unique devices and methods for introducing implants into soft tissue of a patient. One of these devices includes a tissue-penetrating member that is configured to pass in its entirety through a volume of patient tissue. The tissue-penetrating member has a leading end and a trailing end, and provides a receiving space for receipt of an implant body portion for carrying the implant body portion into the volume of patient tissue. The device also includes an implant that has an implant body portion removably received in the receiving space of the tissue-penetrating member. The implant body portion is configured for deployment from the receiving space in the volume of patient tissue so as to remain deployed there along a passageway traversed by the tissue-penetrating member.