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US 2022/0031358 A1Published application
Handle and cartridge system for medical interventions
AssigneeNeoTract, Inc.
InventorsCurtis Yarra, Christopher Zaler, Alexander Charles Gordon, Erik Noel, Calvin Lam, Kevin Alexander Lessard, Jolene Cutts, Maheshwara Rao
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Abstract
An apparatus for transferring mechanical energy in a handle to a cartridge to manipulate tissue or anatomical structures within the body of a human or animal subject for the purpose of treating diseases or disorders.
Claims5
A cartridge for a system that includes a handle and the cartridge, where the handle is configured to accept a series of such cartridges and impart mechanical energy to the cartridge to deliver an implant, comprising:
- a cartridge body coupled to a shaft assembly having a long axis;
- a distal portion of the shaft assembly having a lumen running through the distal portion;
- the lumen having a lumen radius of curvature defined by the curving of the lumen as it runs in a first direction parallel to the long axis to run in a second direction transverse to the long axis;
- a needle assembly slidably disposed within the shaft assembly and the cartridge body and having a needle distal portion such that the needle distal portion is configured to exit the shaft assembly from an exit port at which the lumen terminates;
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- the needle distal portion having a needle radius of curvature defined by the curving of the needle as it runs in a first direction parallel to the long axis to run in a second direction transverse to the long axis, where the lumen radius of curvature and the needle radius of curvature are different.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.