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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2013
Abbott Vascular Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wouter E. Roorda, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kelly J. McCrystle, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Ian J. Clark, West Bloomfield, CA (US);
Laveille K. Voss, Belmont, CA (US);
Ni Ding, San Jose, CA (US);
Abbott Vascular Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A device for closing an opening in a wall of a body lumen includes a closure element with a first flange and a second flange. Both the first flange and the second flange may have a delivery cross-sectional dimension and a deployed cross-sectional dimension. The device for closing an opening further includes a first coupler element disposed on the first flange and a second coupler element disposed on the second flange, the first and second coupler elements cooperating to couple the first flange to the second flange.