Patent ID: 7815591

Claim:
An intraluminal implant comprising: an elongated anchor adapted for implanting within a natural bodily lumen, a central axis of the elongated anchor adapted for alignment with the natural bodily lumen, the elongated anchor including: a primary anchoring region adapted to expand against the lumen; a secondary anchoring region disposed at either side of the primary anchoring region also adapted to expand against the lumen, the primary anchoring region expanding to a greater extent than an outer end of each of the secondary anchoring regions; a flexible, floppy elongated sleeve coupled at its proximal end to the elongated anchor, the sleeve adapted to extend distally beyond the elongated anchor within the natural bodily lumen; the elongated anchor comprising; a plurality of anchoring elements, at least one of the anchoring elements relating to the primary anchoring region and at least two other of the anchoring elements relating to the secondary anchoring regions, a secondary anchoring element being on each side of the primary anchoring element.