U.S. Patent 7758612 was awarded to Tyco Healthcare Group LP on 2010-07-20 and describes a “Surgery delivery device and mesh anchor.” This patent has been cited 260 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative medical technology patents in the field of instruments. The abstract states:

A delivery device for delivering a plurality of individual surgical anchors is disclosed. The delivery device includes a housing, a delivery tube, having a distal and a proximal end, an actuator, flexible anchor reaction members, a reciprocating anchor carrier, having a distal and a proximal end, the distal end terminating in a tissue penetrator. The device further includes at least one surgical anchor located in juxtaposition with the anchor carrier. Each of the surgical anchors has a penetration section and a head section. The surgical anchors are preferably made from an absorbable polymer. The actuator is connected to the anchor carrier and has at least two states. The first, or home state, is a position such that the surgical anchor is proximal the distal end of the tube. The second state is such that the penetrating section of the surgical anchor is exposed beyond the distal end of the delivery tube. Link: U.S. Patent 7758612

This patent was originally filed on 2004-04-27 which gives it a processing time of 2275 days, compared to an average processing time of 1909 in the field. Tyco Healthcare Group LP has 1168 total patents. The first named inventor is John I. Shipp of Atlantic Beach, FL. The assistant examiner was Victor X Nguyen.

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