Surgery – Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants – Antisnoring device
Reexamination Certificate
2005-07-12
2011-10-18
Bianco, Patricia (Department: 3772)
Surgery
Body protecting or restraining devices for patients or infants
Antisnoring device
C606S196000, C128S898000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08037885
ABSTRACT:
A pharyngeal airway having a pharyngeal wall of a patient at least partially surrounding and defining the airway is treated by selecting an implant dimensioned so as to be implanted at or beneath a mucosal layer of the pharyngeal wall and extending transverse to said wall. The implant has mechanical characteristics for the implant, at least in combination with a fibrotic tissue response induced by the implant, to stiffen said pharyngeal wall to resist radial collapse. The implant is implanted into the pharyngeal wall transverse to a longitudinal axis of the airway.
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Conrad Timothy R.
Erickson Brian J.
Knudson Mark B.
Metzger Anja K.
Sopp John P.
Bianco Patricia
Merchant & Gould P.C.
Nguyen Camtu
Restore Medical Inc.
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