Patent ID: 8257390

Claim:
A device for engaging tissue, comprising: a body having a central opening therethrough, the body defining a plane when the body is in a relaxed substantially planar configuration, the body being movable from the substantially planar configuration towards a substantially transverse configuration, such that the body has a bias to move from the substantially transverse configuration toward the substantially planar configuration when the body is deployed from a delivery device, the body being configured for delivery from the delivery device in the substantially transverse configuration; and a plurality of tines extending from the body into the opening, the tines being oriented generally within the plane when the body is in the relaxed substantially planar configuration, and generally angularly orientated relative to the plane when the body is in the transverse configuration, at least one of the plurality of tines comprises a stop member disposed between a tip of the tine and a location where the tine extends from the body.