US 12,064,336 B2
Implant with fiducial markers
Rache Simmons, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (US)
Filed by Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/817,067.
Application 17/817,067 is a continuation of application No. 17/065,157, filed on Oct. 7, 2020, granted, now 11,406,489.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/911,682, filed on Oct. 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0008919 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. A61F 2/12 (2006.01); A61L 27/52 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/12 (2013.01) [A61L 27/52 (2013.01); A61F 2210/00 (2013.01); A61F 2250/0098 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An implant comprising:
a flexible body made of a bioresorbable material, the flexible body having an elongate ribbon-like shape; and
a radiopaque marker located at least partially within the flexible body, the flexible body and the radiopaque marker to mark a body cavity in a radiographic image of the body cavity following implantation of the implant within in the body cavity, the flexible body and the radiopaque marker together configured to be user-trimmable and configured to be packed within the body cavity, the radiopaque marker having a shape of a wire that extends across a length of the flexible body in a sine pattern and extends along an outer face of the flexible body.