Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Medical or veterinary digestive tract utilization systems and methods
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Application No.: US11998152Application Date: 2007-11-27
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Publication No.: US08789536B2Publication Date: 2014-07-29
- Inventor: Edward S. Boyden , Roderick A. Hyde , Muriel Y. Ishikawa , Jordin T. Kare , Robert Langer , Eric C. Leuthardt , Dennis J. Rivet , Michael A. Smith , Charles Whitmer , Lowell L. Wood, Jr. , Victoria Y. H. Wood
- Applicant: Edward S. Boyden , Roderick A. Hyde , Muriel Y. Ishikawa , Jordin T. Kare , Robert Langer , Eric C. Leuthardt , Dennis J. Rivet , Michael A. Smith , Charles Whitmer , Lowell L. Wood, Jr. , Victoria Y. H. Wood
- Applicant Address: US WA Bellevue
- Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, LLC
- Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Bellevue
- Main IPC: A61B19/00
- IPC: A61B19/00 ; A61B1/00 ; A61B5/07 ; A61B5/00 ; A61M31/00 ; A61B5/145 ; A61B5/03 ; A61B7/00

Abstract:
Systems and methods are described for implementing or deploying medical or veterinary utility modules (a) operable for mooring at least partly within a digestive tract, (b) small enough to pass through the tract per vias naturales and including a wireless-control component, (c) having one or more attachment protrusions positionable adjacent to a mucous membrane, (d) configured to facilitate redundant modes of attachment, (e) facilitating a “primary” material supply deployable within a stomach for an extended and/or controllable period, (f) moored by one or more adaptable extender modules supported by a subject's head or neck, and/or (g) configured to facilitate supporting at least a sensor within a subject's body lumen for up to a day or more.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090104250A1 Medical or veterinary digestive tract utilization systems and methods Public/Granted day:2009-04-23
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