Patent ID: 9301756
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: A61B,A61F

Claim Text:
1. A method for deploying a surgical coil and attachment member in a patient's body, comprising: positioning a distal end of a deployment shaft assembly adjacent a deployment site; axially advancing the surgical coil through a delivery sheath of the deployment shaft assembly, out of a distal port of the delivery sheath, into target tissue and around an attachment loop of the attachment member while at least a portion of the attachment member is disposed within an outer sheath of the deployment shaft assembly; and continuing to advance the surgical coil into the target tissue allowing an elongate element of the surgical coil to self-form into an enclosed configuration with the elongate element making contact with itself in an overlapped portion and with an element axis of the elongate element on each side of a section of the surgical coil forming an angle of about 90 degrees with respect to a coil axis of the surgical coil and continuing to advance the surgical coil until the overlapped portion has a circumferential overlap of at least about 360 degrees.