	US 12,102,356 B2
	Removal tool for a subcutaneous implantable device
Christopher Stanislawczyk, Germantown, MD (US); Philip Huffstetler, Germantown, MD (US); Bryan Hays, Germantown, MD (US); Lynne Kelley, Germantown, MD (US); and Sanat Mohanty, Germantown, MD (US)
Assigned to Senseonics, Incorporated, Germantown, MD (US)
Filed by Senseonics, Incorporated, Germantown, MD (US)
Filed on Jul. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/926,438.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/872,876, filed on Jul. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0007780 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/52 (2006.01); A61B 5/145 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/3209 (2006.01)

CPC A61B 17/52 (2013.01) [A61B 5/1451 (2013.01); A61B 5/14532 (2013.01); A61B 17/32093 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00367 (2013.01); A61B 2560/06 (2013.01)]

31 Claims

1. A method of removing an implantable device implanted subcutaneously in a tissue pocket below a skin surface of a host, the method comprising:

(a) placing a magnet on the skin surface above the implantable device, wherein the magnet attracts the implantable device such that an outline of the implantable device is visible on the skin surface;

(b) while the magnet is on the skin surface above the implantable device and the attraction of the implantable device and the magnet is creating the outline of the implantable device, creating an incision in the skin surface at one end of the outline of the implantable device;