Inflatable device for enteric fistula treatment

US8177809B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Curaseal Inc. · US

Inventors

• Akshay Mavani · Los Altos, US
• Kenton Fong · Mountain View, US
• Leif Erik Bansner · Berkeley, US
• Nathan Christopher Maier · Hayward, US
• Dean Hu · San Leandro, US
• Moshe Pinto · Mountain View, US
• Harold Carrison · Pleasanton, US
• Eliot Kim · Cupertino, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 4, 2009
• Grant date: May 15, 2012
• Expiry date: Jul 2, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2017/00902
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Disclosed herein is an implantable fistula closure device. The device may include an expandable longitudinally segmented body including a proximal end and a distal end. The segmented body may further include a plurality of porous bodies and a connecting member operably joining together the plurality of porous bodies. The plurality of porous bodies includes a first porous body with a proximal end and a distal end and a second porous body with a proximal end and a distal end, and the connecting member operably connects the proximal end of the first porous body with the distal end of the second porous body.