Patent ID: 7875036

Claim:
An intravaginal device for treating a female patient's uterine disorder by occluding at least one of the patient's uterine arteries, comprising: a. a first clamping member which has i. an elongated handle with a proximal handle portion configured to extend out of the patient during treatment and be manipulated by an operator, which has a distal handle portion having a pivot point and which is configured to rotate in a plane about the pivot point, and ii. a paddle-shaped jaw which is secured to the distal handle portion, which has a distal end with a pressure applying surface, which has an inside tissue receiving recess proximal to the pressure applying surface with upper and lower longitudinally oriented sides proximal to the distal end defining in part the tissue receiving recess, with the upper longitudinally oriented side in line with the distal handle portion and the lower longitudinally oriented side spaced away from the upper longitudinally oriented side; and b. a second clamping member which has i. an elongated handle with a proximal handle portion configured to extend out of the patient during treatment and be manipulated by an operator along with the proximal handle portion of the first clamping member, which has a distal handle portion having a pivot point pivotally secured to the pivot point of the handle of the first clamping member and which is configured to rotate in the plane about the pivot point, and ii. a second paddle-shaped jaw secured to the distal handle portion of the second clamping member having a distal end with a pressure applying surface opposed to the pressure applying surface of the first clamping member, a tissue receiving recess proximal to the pressure applying surface extending away from the tissue receiving recess of the first clamping member, a pair of longitudinally oriented sides, with an upper one of the longitudinally oriented sides in the rotational plane of the distal handle portion of the second clamping member and a lower one of the longitudinally oriented sides spaced away from the upper one of the longitudinally oriented sides, wherein the device is mounted to a tenaculum-like device having an elongated shaft to guide the device to the patient's uterine cervix, wherein the device has a shoe slider located below the pivot point for mounting the device to the tenaculum-like device, wherein the upper longitudinally oriented sides of the first and second paddle-shaped jaws extend above the shoe slider and the lower longitudinally oriented sides of the first and second paddle-shaped jaws extend below the shoe slider, and wherein the shoe slider is positioned between the upper longitudinally oriented sides and the lower longitudinally oriented sides of the paddle-shaped jaws so that the distal ends of the paddle-shaped jaws are equally disposed above and below the elongated shaft of the tenaculum-like device to properly engage a patient's vaginal fornix and to apply pressure to the patient's underlying uterine arteries to occlude the arteries.