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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2014
Tusker Medical, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Greg Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rohit Girotra, Mountain View, CA (US);
John H. Morriss, San Francisco, CA (US);
Julia D. Vrany, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hung V. Ha, San Jose, CA (US);
Bryan D. Knodel, Flagstaff, AZ (US);
Jeffrey A. Walker, Livermore, CA (US);
Thomas D. Gross, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Matthew D. Clopp, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bernard H. Andreas, Redwood City, CA (US);
Tusker Medical, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for automatically forming an incision in a tympanic membrane of an ear and placing a tympanic membrane pressure equalization tube into the incision. The systems include a housing with a shaft extending therefrom. A mechanism is disposed within the housing. A distal end of the shaft is placed against a tympanic membrane, and the mechanism is triggered to causes the tympanic membrane to be automatically incised and dilated and a tympanic membrane pressure equalization tube to be placed in the dilated incision.