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US 8,298,244 B2Granted
Intracorporeal grasping device
AssigneeTyco Healtcare Group LP
InventorsAdrian Garcia, Ting Tina Ye, Quang Q Tran, Bart Bojanowski, Alec Piplani, Aaron Lee Berez
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Abstract
An intracorporeal grasping device includes a tubular member for entering a lumen of a human body and the tubular member having a distal end portion. An elongated core member is disposed within the interior cavity of the tubular member for rotational or slidable movement within the tubular member and the elongated core member having a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The elongated core member includes a grasping configuration for capturing an object (e.g., clot or debris) therein.
Claims15
An intracorporeal grasping device, comprising:
- an elongated member having a proximal end and a distal end;
- a grasping assembly comprising a proximal portion and a distal portion, the proximal portion being attached to the distal end of the elongated member, the distal portion comprising a plurality of jaws and strands, each of the strands having an entire length extending between members of a respective pair of jaws, being permanently attached to the members of the respective pair of jaws at axial locations proximal to terminal distal ends of the members of the respective pair of jaws, and being oriented concave along the entire length and toward the terminal distal ends;
- wherein the jaws comprise object engaging elements extending radially inward from the terminal distal ends toward a longitudinal axis of the device, the object engaging elements being configured to be placed alongside an object for engaging and removing the object from a body lumen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.