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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
May. 10, 2012
Christian Lowe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Don Gurskis, Redwood City, CA (US);
Ashish Khera, San Francisco, CA (US);
Monica Barnhart, Foster City, CA (US);
Steven Bacich, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Betsy Swann, Newark, CA (US);
Roberto Silva-torres, Foster City, CA (US);
Christian Lowe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Don Gurskis, Redwood City, CA (US);
Ashish Khera, San Francisco, CA (US);
Monica Barnhart, Foster City, CA (US);
Steven Bacich, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Betsy Swann, Newark, CA (US);
Roberto Silva-Torres, Foster City, CA (US);
Bayer Essure Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Contraceptive methods, systems, and devices generally improve the ease, speed, and reliability with which a contraceptive device can be deployed transcervically into an ostium of a fallopian tube. The contraceptive device may remain in a small profile configuration while a sheath is withdrawn proximally, and is thereafter expanded to a large profile configuration engaging the surrounding tissues, by manipulating one or more actuators of a proximal handle with a single hand. This leaves the other hand free to manipulate a hysteroscope, minimizing the number of health care professional required to deploy the contraceptive device.