US 11,998,190 B2
Method and apparatus for serial deployment of multiple tissue fasteners
Arnold Miller, Cambridge, MA (US); and Raanan Miller, Cambridge, MA (US)
Assigned to Amsel Medical Corporation, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed by Arnold Miller, Cambridge, MA (US); and Raanan Miller, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2017, as Appl. No. 15/447,747.
Application 15/447,747 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/380,245, filed on Dec. 15, 2016, abandoned.
Application 15/380,245 is a continuation of application No. 15/226,577, filed on Aug. 2, 2016, abandoned.
Application 15/226,577 is a continuation of application No. 13/348,416, filed on Jan. 11, 2012, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/303,071, filed on Mar. 3, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2017/0202551 A1, Jul. 20, 2017
Int. Cl. A61B 17/064 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/068 (2006.01); A61B 17/12 (2006.01); A61B 17/122 (2006.01); A61B 17/128 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/064 (2013.01) [A61B 17/00008 (2013.01); A61B 17/0682 (2013.01); A61B 17/12 (2013.01); A61B 17/12009 (2013.01); A61B 17/12013 (2013.01); A61B 17/12022 (2013.01); A61B 17/12027 (2013.01); A61B 17/12031 (2013.01); A61B 17/12036 (2013.01); A61B 17/1214 (2013.01); A61B 17/12145 (2013.01); A61B 17/122 (2013.01); A61B 17/128 (2013.01); A61B 17/1285 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00668 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00867 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00893 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00986 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0419 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0641 (2013.01); A61B 17/0643 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0645 (2013.01); A61B 2017/12054 (2013.01); A61B 2017/12095 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
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1. A system for delivering and deploying a plurality of tissue fasteners to multiple locations of tissue layers to be secured to each other comprising:
a delivery tube having proximal and distal ends and having a lumen and a distal outlet opening at the distal end; a plurality of tissue fasteners disposed in a tandem array in the lumen of the delivery tube, each of the tissue fasteners comprising a tubular body having proximal and distal ends and an inner lumen
a shuttle mechanism extending through the delivery tube and through bodies of the tandem fasteners, the shuttle mechanism being movable longitudinally within the delivery tube, the shuttle mechanism having at its distal end, a a fastener-engaging mechanism for selectively engaging a fastener body within the lumen of the fastener sufficiently to slide the fastener within the lumen of the delivery tube in a distal or proximal direction;
whereby the shuttle mechanism may selectively eject the most distal of the fasteners in the array within the delivery tube toward and out of the distal outlet or retract a partially ejected fastener back into the delivery tube.