US 12,268,590 B1
Branched graft assembly method in vivo
Adam Howard Power, London (CA)
Assigned to W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE (US)
Filed by W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., Newark, DE (US)
Filed on Oct. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/968,234.
Application 16/686,657 is a division of application No. 15/441,202, filed on Feb. 23, 2017, granted, now 10,512,533, issued on Dec. 24, 2019.
Application 17/968,234 is a continuation of application No. 16/686,657, filed on Nov. 18, 2019, granted, now 11,504,222.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/298,530, filed on Feb. 23, 2016.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/06 (2013.01); A61F 2/07 (2013.01); A61F 2/95 (2013.01); A61F 2/954 (2013.01)
CPC A61F 2/06 (2013.01) [A61F 2/07 (2013.01); A61F 2/954 (2013.01); A61F 2002/061 (2013.01); A61F 2002/068 (2013.01); A61F 2002/9534 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of locating and securing a branch graft in two separate conduits comprising:
configuring a first end of a branch graft into an opening of a first conduit a first insertion length so that a second end of the branch graft extends from said first conduit opening, the first end being constricted to a first constricted diameter;
pulling a ripcord to deploy the first end of the branch graft within the first conduit from the first constricted diameter so that the first end of the branch graft deploys a first deployed distance;
pushing on a locating sheath to position a portion of the locating sheath and the second end of the branch graft into a second conduit, the second end being constricted to a second constricted diameter, and a portion of a length of the ripcord extending through the locating sheath;
pulling on a first end and a second end of the ripcord to remove the locating sheath and to deploy the second end of the branch graft from the second constricted diameter so that the second end of the branch graft is deployed from the second end of the branch graft toward the first end of the branch graft; and
expanding the branch graft to a deployed state, wherein the branch graft is expanded toward said expanded diameter along the length of the branch graft, the branch graft retained within the first conduit and within the second conduit so that the branch graft couples the first conduit with the second conduit.