Patent ID: 11963672
Assignee: ENDO-THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 6:
7. The endoscopic snare of claim 6, wherein the first bend angular direction is more inwardly divergent than the angular direction of an adjacent portion of the loop closer to the proximal end of the loop, the second bend angular direction is more outwardly divergent than the first bend angular direction, and the third bend angular direction is more inwardly divergent than the second bend angular direction, whereby an outwardly extending corner is formed at an outward vertex where the loop extending along the second bend angular direction diverges toward the third bend angular direction and an inwardly extending bend is formed at an inward vertex where the loop extending from the first bend angular direction diverges toward the second bend angular direction.