Patent ID: 9737289
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61D

Claim:
1. A single-use, disposable, tissue suspender device comprising: a longitudinal body defined by a longitudinal axis and having a distal end and a proximal end, the thickness of the body being substantially constant along a major portion of the length of said body from said proximal end towards said distal end, and the longitudinal body including visible device positioning markers located along the longitudinal body at predetermined spaced apart intervals; a constrained prehensile tail disposed at the proximal end of the longitudinal body, the tail being capable of achieving an unconstrained radius of curvature between 0 degrees and 180 degrees; a section of reduced thickness extending from and integrally attached to said distal end of said longitudinal body, said section of reduced thickness having a thickness less than the thickness of the longitudinal body; a curved attachment section extending from and integrally attached to a distal end of said section of reduced thickness; and a distal bar integrally attached to a distal end of said curved attachment section at an attachment point, said distal bar having a first section and a second section extending in opposite directions from said attachment point such that said second section forms an acute angle with said attachment section in an unconfined state, said first section extending from said attachment point at a first unconstrained angle with respect to said longitudinal axis of said longitudinal body and said second section extending from said attachment point at a second unconstrained angle with respect to said longitudinal axis of said longitudinal body, said first unconstrained angle being different than said second unconstrained angle such that said distal bar forms an anchor shape, wherein the thickness of the longitudinal body is between about 0.9 mm to about 2.1 mm, and wherein the longitudinal body, the attaching section, and the distal bar are all made of the same molded high density polypropylene copolymer material, and wherein the tail imparts mechanical constraint through the crystalline structure of the material of the device along the longitudinal axis of the longitudinal body towards the distal bar at the distal end of the body.