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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
David Thompson, San Jose, CA (US);
Nathan Aronson, Chico, CA (US);
Patrick Wu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
David Lehrberg, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark L. Mathis, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Boutillette, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jaime Vasquez, Fremont, CA (US);
David Thompson, San Jose, CA (US);
Nathan Aronson, Chico, CA (US);
Patrick Wu, Pleasanton, CA (US);
David Lehrberg, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mark L. Mathis, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael Boutillette, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jaime Vasquez, Fremont, CA (US);
PneumRx, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A lung volume reduction system is disclosed comprising an implantable device adapted to be delivered to a lung airway of a patient in a delivery configuration and to change to a deployed configuration to bend the lung airway. The invention also discloses a method of bending a lung airway of a patient comprising inserting a device into the airway in a delivery configuration and bending the device into a deployed configuration, thereby bending the airway.