Patent Application - Devices, systems, and methods using magnetic force systems in or on tissue in an airway > Summary

Patent Application No. US 20060289014

Published on Dec 28, 2006

Application No. 11/397489

Filed on Apr 4, 2006

Priority Date -

Purdy, Craig A. - Sunnyvale, CA US (9)

Systems and methods place a magnetic structure in or on a single tissue mass in an airway. A first magnetic region on a given structure magnetically interacts with a second magnetic region on the structure to shape the structure within the single tissue mass and thereby stabilize a desired orientation for the single tissue mass. The first magnetic region can magnetically interact with the second magnetic region, e.g., by generating magnetic attracting forces.