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Granted Patent B2
US 12,390,209 · App. 18/458,318 · Granted Aug 19, 2025

Systems and methods for tissue removal

Inventors: Alexandra Do (San Clemente, CA); Boun Pravong (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA); Serene Wachli (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA)
Assignee: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
A61B17/0281A61B17/0293A61B17/3423B29C51/004B29C67/0022A61B2017/00287A61B2017/00526A61B17/0218A61B2017/0225A61B2017/0287A61B17/3211A61B2017/3429A61B17/3431A61B17/3439A61B2090/08021B29C33/485B29C57/02
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Patent No.
US 12,390,209
App. No.
18/458,318
Granted
Aug 19, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A guard for providing a cut-resistant pathway through a body orifice or incision to circumferentially protect tissue at the margin is provided. The guard is made of flexible, cut-resistant mesh material having a plurality of interwoven thermosoftening filaments. The guard has a central lumen and at least one flared end. The flared end, which serves to anchor the guard in the body opening, is deformable into a reduced configuration to facilitate its insertion and removal. The layer of mesh stretches laterally to increase the diameter of the central lumen. The flexibility and expandability of the guard allows the guard to conform to body openings of different sizes. The guard may include a drawstring to cinch the flared distal end from the proximal end. The guard is thermoset with the flared distal end that is biased to spring back to its normal, undeformed configuration when released from a deformed configuration.

Claims (22)

1. A guard for providing a cut-resistant pathway through a body opening to protect a tissue margin, the guard comprising:

a sidewall having a tubular shape defining a central lumen; the central lumen extending along a longitudinal axis between a proximal opening at a proximal end and a distal opening at a distal end; the sidewall being made of at least one layer of flexible, cut-resistant mesh material having a plurality of interwoven filaments defining interstices; the sidewall having a distal portion with a progressively increasing diameter toward the distal end defining a flared distal flange in the sidewall; the flared distal flange being configured to anchor the guard with respect to a distal end of the tissue margin; the sidewall circumferentially protecting the tissue margin along the body opening; the sidewall having a neck portion located proximally to the flared distal flange; and

a pull-wire located circumferentially around the flared distal flange and configured to reduce a lateral dimension of the flared distal flange when pulled into a reduced configuration to facilitate insertion and removal of the guard when in the reduced configuration.

2. The guard of claim 1 wherein when the pull-wire is released the flared distal flange is biased to return to a normal, undeformed configuration.

3. The guard of claim 1 wherein the pull-wire is weaved through the interstices circumferentially around the distal end of the guard and configured to reduce a lateral dimension of the distal end when pulled.

4. The guard of claim 1 wherein the mesh material is configured to stretch laterally relative to the longitudinal axis such that the sidewall is expandable to enlarge a lateral dimension of the central lumen at the neck portion relative to the lateral dimension of the central lumen at the neck portion when in a normal, undeformed configuration.

5. The guard of claim 1 wherein the mesh material is configured such that the neck portion is adapted to be laterally expandable to lengthen a lateral dimension of the guard while reducing an axial dimension of the guard along the longitudinal axis.

6. The guard of claim 1 wherein the interstices at the flared distal flange are larger than the interstices at the neck portion in a normal, undeformed configuration.

7. The guard of claim 1 wherein the mesh material is configured to stretch laterally relative to the longitudinal axis such that the sidewall is expandable to enlarge the interstices of the central lumen at the neck portion relative to the interstices of the central lumen at the neck portion when in a normal, undeformed configuration.

8. The guard of claim 1 wherein the guard has a deformed configuration in which the flared distal flange is flexed distally, lengthening the axial dimension of the guard such that the lateral dimension of the distal end and flared distal flange are reduced relative to a normal, undeformed configuration.

9. The guard of claim 1 wherein the guard has a deformed configuration in which the lateral dimension at the distal end is reduced relative to the lateral dimension of the distal end in a normal, undeformed configuration.

10. The guard of claim 1 wherein the flared distal flange extends circumferentially outwardly from the longitudinal axis when in a normal, undeformed configuration.

11. The guard of claim 10 wherein the flared distal flange is flexible in the distal direction to reduce the degree to which the flared distal flange extends circumferentially outwardly from the longitudinal axis relative to the normal, undeformed configuration to facilitate insertion into the body opening.

12. The guard of claim 1 wherein the flared distal flange is adapted to be folded down in a distal direction to reduce the lateral dimension of the distal end of the guard to facilitate insertion and removal of the guard from the body opening.

13. The guard of claim 1 further comprising a circumferential ring or bead at the proximal end of the guard.

14. The guard of claim 1 further comprising a proximal flange formed at the proximal end of the guard; the proximal flange defined by a progressively increasing central lumen toward the proximal end.

15. The guard of claim 1 wherein the proximal end of the guard comprises a band of heat sealed filaments.

16. The guard of claim 1 further comprising a dispersion coating at the proximal end of the guard and/or an antimicrobial coating.

17. The guard of claim 1 wherein the sidewall is made of thermosoftening polymer filaments.

18. The guard of claim 1 wherein the guard has an hourglass shape.

19. The guard of claim 1 wherein the distal portion of the guard is adapted for lateral reduction.

20. The guard of claim 1 wherein the sidewall includes a fold at the distal end such that the sidewall overlaps itself to form two coaxial layers of mesh material circumferentially enclosing the central lumen.

Assignments (1)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2024
From: APPLIED MEDICAL RESOURCES CORPORATION
To: BMO BANK N.A., AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Reel/Frame 066702/0123 →
Continuity (5)
Continuation 16773639 · Jan 27, 2020
Continuation 15348089 · Nov 10, 2016
Continuation PCTUS2016029154 · Apr 25, 2016
Provisional Application 62151736 · Apr 23, 2015
Related Publication 20230397932A1 · Dec 14, 2023
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