Patent ID: 9463107
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: A61F

Claim Text:
1. A system for an implantable device, the device being of a size that is too large to pass through an opening of a patient's pylorus, the device constructed for placement completely within a patient's stomach and constructed to be introduced into the stomach transorally without surgery to treat and prevent obesity by applying an outwardly directed pressure to the patient's stomach from within the stomach, comprising: a central elongated body having telescopically adjustable length and a longitudinal axis; two collapsible atraumatic feet extending from opposite ends of the elongated body, each foot constructed to assume an elongated delivery configuration in which the foot is positioned at a first radially collapsed position where said feet are elongated along said longitudinal axis, and to move to a deployed configuration in which the foot is in a second radially expanded position where said feet form stomach-contacting surfaces that are substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis at opposite ends of the elongated body, the two collapsible atraumatic feet comprising an array of living hinges that may be unfolded to said elongated delivery configuration and folded outward to said deployed configuration, each foot configured to exert an outwardly directed pressure on an interior of the patient's stomach from within the stomach when the foot is in the deployed configuration when the central elongated body and the atraumatic feet are completely contained within the interior of the stomach without the elongated body piercing any portion of the stomach, wherein the central elongated body does not pass through the atraumatic feet along the longitudinal axis; and an actuator at least partially within the central elongated body configured to simultaneously adjust the length of the body and the distance between the atraumatic feet.