US 12,220,119 B2
Tissue engagement device
Christopher R. Deuel, Melrose, MA (US); Danny Shu-Huan Lee, Cambridge, MA (US); Paul Smith, Smithfield, RI (US); and Routha Sim, Lowell, MA (US)
Assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/558,662.
Application 17/558,662 is a continuation of application No. 16/399,963, filed on Apr. 30, 2019, granted, now 11,234,687.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/674,774, filed on May 22, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0190252 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 17/02 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/0206 (2013.01) [A61B 17/00234 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00327 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00336 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A tissue engagement device comprising:
a first jaw and a second jaw movable, along a first direction, between a closed position in which the first jaw and the second jaw contact each other, and an open position in which the first jaw and the second jaw are apart from each other; and
an actuation assembly graspable from a variety of different angles to move the first jaw and the second jaw from the closed position to the open position;
wherein the actuation assembly is movable in the first direction to move the first jaw and the second jaw in the first direction, and is also alternatively movable in a second direction transverse to the first direction to move the first jaw and the second jaw in the first direction.