US 12,419,621 B2
Device, systems, and methods for grasping tissue at a muscular level
Esteban S. Montenegro, Heredia (CR); Jairo M. Vargas Mena, Heredia (CR); and Gonzalo J. Saenz Villalobos, Alajuela (CR)
Assigned to BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed by Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US)
Filed on Aug. 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/404,574.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/126,165, filed on Dec. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0183670 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/29 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 17/00234 (2013.01) [A61B 17/29 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00349 (2013.01); A61B 2017/2926 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tissue repair device comprising:
a tubular component having a longitudinal axis and a lumen defined therein; and
a tissue-penetrating arm and a tissue-grasping arm extendable together from a closed position extending laterally adjacent each other within the lumen of the tubular component to a position outside the lumen of the tubular component;
wherein:
the tissue-penetrating arm is shaped and configured to be maintained and to remain in a substantially axially straight configuration from a proximal end thereof to a distalmost end thereof and in a position substantially parallel to the tubular component longitudinal axis when extended to a position outside the tubular component lumen with a tissue-penetrating distal tip of the tissue-penetrating arm extending parallel to the longitudinal axis to be directed axially and distally away from the tubular component to axially penetrate tissue upon distal advancement of the tissue-penetrating arm along the longitudinal axis and toward tissue; and
the tissue-grasping arm is pivotable with respect to the tubular component longitudinal axis toward the tissue-penetrating arm to grasp tissue between the tissue-grasping arm and the tissue-penetrating arm, or away from the tissue-penetrating arm, wherein the tissue-grasping arm has a proximal end coupled to the proximal end of the tissue-penetrating arm.