Surgery – Female reproductory tract shields – supports – or birth...
Reexamination Certificate
2007-07-03
2007-07-03
Brown, Michael A. (Department: 3772)
Surgery
Female reproductory tract shields, supports, or birth...
C128S831000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10892607
ABSTRACT:
Contraceptive methods, systems, and devices generally improve the ease, speed, and reliability with which a contraceptive device can be deployed transcervically into an ostium of a fallopian tube. A distal portion of the contraceptive device can function as a guidewire. The proximal portion may remain in a small profile configuration while a sheath is withdrawn proximally, and is thereafter expanded to a large profile configuration engaging the surrounding tissues.
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Bacich Steven
Gurskis Don
Khera Ashish
Swann Betsy
That Dai Ton
Brown Michael A.
Conceptus, Inc.
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