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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
May. 21, 2015
Applicant:
Terumo Puerto Rico, L.l.c., Caguas, PR (US);
Inventors:
Catherine A. Pipenhagen, Plymouth, MN (US);
Kedar R. Belhe, Minnetonka, MN (US);
John Avi Roop, Crystal, MN (US);
Assignee:
TERUMO PUERTO RICO, L.L.C., Caguas, PR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/0057 (2013.01); A61B 17/00234 (2013.01); A61B 17/0401 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00592 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00615 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00637 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00654 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00659 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00663 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00668 (2013.01);
Abstract
An internal tissue puncture closure method and apparatus. The method and apparatus provide a folded sealing plug that provides more surface area than conventional plugs to more fully cover and seal an external situs of an internal tissue puncture. The folded sealing plug may have a weave pattern that tends to cause the sealing plug to corkscrew into the internal tissue puncture as it is compressed toward an anchor placed inside of the tissue puncture.