Patent ID: 11937823
Assignee: VENACORE INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 10:
11. An implant for gradually restricting vascular blood flow, comprising:
an elongated implant body comprising a flow restricting portion enclosing a variable minimal internal diameter; and
at least one first holding member configured for restraining the implant body to maintain the variable minimal internal diameter in a first minimal internal diameter, the at least one first holding member is configured to physically yield voluntarily after a first predetermined average duration of being continuously subjected to internal human body conditions, thereby releasing and allowing the implant body to elastically deform voluntarily such that the variable minimal internal diameter changes to a second minimal internal diameter, smaller than the first minimal internal diameter;
wherein the implant body includes a distal anchoring portion provided distally to the flow restricting portion and/or a proximal anchoring portion provided proximally to the flow restricting portion, and wherein the flow restricting portion is connected to the distal anchoring portion and/or the proximal retention portion via one or more elastic connecting members.