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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2011
Applicants:
Richard Fortier, Concord, MA (US);
Mark Bowen, Stow, MA (US);
Margaret Mccabe, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention regards an apparatus for selectively and accurately deploying one or more sequentially positioned medical appliances from a portable medical device. The apparatus includes a body having a channel, a string passing through the channel, and a mechanism for moving the string predetermined distances to deploy medical appliances. The medical appliances may be, but are not limited to, ligation bands.