Patent ID: 8906045

Claim:
A system for closing an aperture in a biological tissue comprising: a handle; an elongate shaft connected to the handle, wherein the elongate shaft is rigid during insertion of the system into a subject and flexible during attachment of a surgical implant to the biological tissue; a deployment scaffold connected to the elongate shaft, wherein the deployment scaffold is configured to deploy a surgical implant, includes a pair of opposed arms defining a plane, and the deployment scaffold articulates laterally relative to a longitudinal axis of the elongate shaft and along the plane defined by the arms, the arms transitionable between a closed configuration defining a first space between the arms and a deployed configuration defining a second space between the arms that is greater than the first space, the arms remaining parallel to one another as the arms transition between the closed and deployed configurations; and a plurality of attachment members configured to releasably retain a surgical implant to the deployment scaffold.