Patent ID: 9192508
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: A61B,A61F,A61M

Abstract:
1. A stabilization system for resisting posterior movement of a tongue within a mouth into an airway, a floor of the mouth being defined anteriorly by a mandible; posteriorly by a hyoid; and including suprahyoid muscles attached to the mandible and/or hyoid, the tongue resting within the mouth on suprahyoid muscles outside of the floor of the mouth, the system comprising a mount sized and configured to be implanted free of the mandible outside the tongue between suprahyoid muscles in or on the floor of the mouth and/or outside the tongue between an extrinsic muscle of the tongue and a suprahyoid muscle in or on the floor of the mouth, the mount having a posterior region that, when implanted, is sized and configured to be positioned near the hyoid; and one or more struts coupled to the posterior region of the mount, at least one of the one or more struts being sized and configured to extend in a superior direction from the mount into a posterior region of the tongue, the at least one strut comprising mechanical restraining means including a length of extension into the posterior region of the tongue and/or an angular orientation measured in a superior direction from the posterior region of the mount for applying a resisting force to resist posterior movement of the tongue into the airway.