Patent 7029482 was granted and assigned to Cardica, Inc. on April, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A single integrated tool is used both to create an opening in a vessel wall and deploy an anastomosis device into that opening, thereby simplifying an anastomosis procedure such as a coronary artery bypass graft procedure. The creation of the opening and deployment of the anastomosis device may be actuated with a single control.