US 12,102,545 B2
Implant delivery device
R. Sean Churchill, Grand Rapids, MI (US); Robert J. Ball, West Olive, MI (US); Douglas Snell, Grand Rapids, MI (US); Isaac Running, Grand Rapids, MI (US); Christopher K. Jones, Colorado Springs, CO (US); and Brandon Bryant, Vienna, VA (US)
Assigned to Embody, Inc., Norfolk, VA (US)
Filed by EMBODY, INC., Norfolk, VA (US)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/510,187.
Application 18/510,187 is a continuation of application No. 17/682,748, filed on Feb. 28, 2022, granted, now 11,850,167.
Application 17/682,748 is a continuation of application No. 17/174,011, filed on Feb. 11, 2021, granted, now 11,259,939.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/972,775, filed on Feb. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0082017 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61F 2/46 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 2/4601 (2013.01) [A61B 17/3423 (2013.01); A61B 17/3462 (2013.01); A61B 17/3498 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of delivering a sheet-like implant to a surgical site, comprising:
locating an access cannula and an implant delivery device that is received in the access cannula in an incision in a patient, wherein the implant delivery device includes a movable implant supporting flange member, and wherein a combination of the movable implant supporting flange member and a sheet-like implant that is extending along the movable implant supporting flange member are being held in a constrained condition by an interior of the access cannula;
advancing the implant delivery device along the interior of the access cannula toward a surgical site until the sheet-like implant and the movable implant supporting flange member have at least partially exited the access cannula and are no longer being held in the constrained condition by the interior of the access cannula;
anchoring the sheet-like implant to tissue at the surgical site;
sliding the movable implant supporting flange member at least partially back through the access cannula and past at least part of the sheet-like implant; and
withdrawing the implant delivery device from the surgical site leaving the sheet-like implant at the surgical site.