System for embryo transfer
AssigneePremium Fertility S.L.
InventorsCarlos Simón Vallés, Javier Santamaría Costa, David Jiménez Moreno, Dusty Fisk, Rhys Freitas, David S. Hunt, Robert Jenkins
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Abstract
The present invention relates to dispensing instruments and methods for introducing treatment material and fluid-like material with an embryo into a uterus. More specifically, the present invention relates to apparatuses for delivering a fertilized egg or embryo into a maternal uterine endometrium in humans or any other mammalian species and associated computer programs for controlling said apparatuses.
Claims22
An apparatus suitable for delivering a fertilized egg or embryo into a maternal uterine endometrium in a mammalian species, the apparatus comprising:
- a body configured to fit within a lumen of the female reproductive system, the body comprising:
- a lumen extending from a proximal end of the body to a distal portion of the body and having a distal opening at the distal portion of the body, the lumen configured to slidably receive an inner body having a distal end suitable for penetrating an endometrial epithelium;
- a first actuator operable to advance the inner body out from the distal opening of the body;
- a second actuator operable to expel a fertilized egg from the inner body;
- a measurement assembly configured to measure whether the apparatus is in a first state indicating that a distance between the distal end of the inner body and the endometrial epithelium is greater than a predetermined distance in a direction that the inner body is advanced from the distal opening, or a second state indicating that the distance between the distal end of the inner body and the endometrial epithelium is equal to or less than the predetermined distance;
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- an indicating device coupled to the measurement assembly and configured to indicate that the apparatus is in the first state or the second state.
An apparatus suitable for delivering a fertilized egg or embryo into a maternal uterine endometrium in a mammalian species, the apparatus comprising:
- a body configured to fit within a lumen of the female reproductive system, the body comprising:
- a lumen extending from a proximal end of the body to a distal portion of the body and having a distal opening at the distal portion of the body, the lumen configured to slidably receive an inner body having a distal end suitable for penetrating an endometrial epithelium;
- a first actuator operable to advance the inner body out from the distal opening of the body;
- a second actuator operable to expel a fertilized egg from the inner body;
- a measurement assembly comprising a measurement portion disposed at the distal portion of the body, the measurement assembly being configured to measure whether the apparatus is in a first state indicating that a distance between the distal portion of the body and the endometrial epithelium is greater than a predetermined distal portion distance in a direction that the inner body is advanced from the distal opening, or a second state indicating that the distance between the distal portion of the body and the endometrial epithelium is equal to or less than the predetermined distal portion distance;
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- an indicating device coupled to the measurement assembly and configured to indicate that the measurement assembly is in the first state or the second state;
- wherein the first actuator is operable to advance the inner body out from the distal opening by at least the predetermined distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.