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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2013
Applicant:
Endogastric Solutions, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
Assignee:
EndoGastric Solutions, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/064 (2006.01); A61F 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/068 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/072 (2006.01); A61B 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/064 (2013.01); A61B 1/00094 (2013.01); A61B 17/00234 (2013.01); A61B 17/068 (2013.01); A61F 5/0086 (2013.01); A61B 17/072 (2013.01); A61B 17/07292 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00243 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00349 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00353 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00557 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00818 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00827 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00862 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0409 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0649 (2013.01); A61B 2017/306 (2013.01);
Abstract
Stomach tissue is manipulated and fastened with a tissue grasper and a tissue shaper to form folds in the stomach. The tissue grasper and the tissue shaper rotate and translate relative to one another. The tissue grasper has a plurality of vacuum orifices to adhere the tissue grasper to tissue.