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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
May. 31, 2016
Applicant:
Pivot Medical, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Andrew J. Hamel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pivot Medical, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/317 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); A61B 1/07 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/317 (2013.01); A61B 1/0676 (2013.01); A61B 1/0684 (2013.01); A61B 1/07 (2013.01); A61B 17/3417 (2013.01); A61B 17/3403 (2013.01); A61B 2090/306 (2016.02); A61B 2090/3945 (2016.02);
Abstract
A method for accessing the interior of a joint, wherein the joint comprises tissue which defines a boundary of the joint, the tissue comprising an interior surface facing toward the interior of the joint and an exterior surface facing away from the interior of the joint, the method comprising: providing a light-emitting needle assembly comprising a hollow needle having a light source at the distal end thereof; and observing the interior surface of the tissue from the interior of the joint as the needle approaches the exterior surface of the tissue.