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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2006
Thomas P. Knapp, Pacific Palisades, CA (US);
Bernhard Uihlein, Dettingen, DE;
Stanley O. Thompson, New Boston, NH (US);
Timothy J. Coonahan, Sterling, MA (US);
Jon Taylor, Groton, MA (US);
Thomas P. Knapp, Pacific Palisades, CA (US);
Bernhard Uihlein, Dettingen, DE;
Stanley O. Thompson, New Boston, NH (US);
Timothy J. Coonahan, Sterling, MA (US);
Jon Taylor, Groton, MA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A member of a rigid flexible elastic material, the member including a body portion and an aperture portion with the member adapted for delivery through an axial longitudinal channel of a percutaneous delivery subsystem, the aperture portion including an expanded mode having a lateral dimension greater than an inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion extends outside the channel and a collapsed mode wherein the lateral dimension is not greater than the inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion is within the channel, the channel including a first axial opening and a second axial opening with the aperture portion transitioning from the expanded mode to the collapsed mode when inserted into the openings and the aperture transitioning from the collapsed mode to the expanded mode when exiting from the openings.