US 12,408,918 B2
Anchor magazine
Yuval Zipory, Modi'in (IL); Alexei Koifman, Melbourne (AU); Ehud Aviv, Costa Mesa, CA (US); and Tal Reich, Moledet (IL)
Assigned to Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd., Caesarea (IL)
Filed by Edwards Lifesciences Innovation (Israel) Ltd., Caesarea (IL)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/458,038.
Application 18/458,038 is a continuation of application No. 17/378,559, filed on Jul. 16, 2021, granted, now 11,766,263.
Application 17/378,559 is a continuation of application No. 16/239,279, filed on Jan. 3, 2019, granted, now 11,065,001, issued on Jul. 20, 2021.
Application 16/239,279 is a continuation of application No. 15/030,731, granted, now 10,299,793, issued on May 28, 2019, previously published as PCT/IL2014/050914, filed on Oct. 21, 2014.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/894,486, filed on Oct. 23, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2023/0404585 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 17/10 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/068 (2006.01); A61B 50/20 (2016.01); A61B 50/30 (2016.01); A61B 17/064 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/105 (2013.01) [A61B 17/068 (2013.01); A61B 50/20 (2016.02); A61B 50/30 (2016.02); A61B 2017/00243 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0053 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0416 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0649 (2013.01); A61B 2017/0688 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
a tissue anchor; and
an anchor-handling device:
comprising a housing, shaped to define a channel having an anchor-storage zone and a proximal opening, the anchor stored in the anchor-storage zone,
configured such that, while the tissue anchor is stored in the anchor-storage zone, the tissue anchor is movable out of the anchor-storage zone toward the proximal opening in response to a proximally-directed force being applied to the tissue anchor, and
comprising an element that serves as an indicator of movement of the tissue anchor out of the anchor-storage zone toward the proximal opening by the element sliding proximally within the housing in response to the proximally-directed force:
from an anchor-stored position that is indicative of the presence of the anchor within the anchor-storage zone,
into an anchor-absent position that is (i) different from the anchor-stored position, and (ii) indicative of an absence of the anchor from the anchor-storage zone by a part of the element protruding proximally out of the housing.