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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2017
Innovative Medical Devices, Llc, Westport, CT (US);
Kenneth M. Zinn, Westport, CT (US);
Innovative Medical Devices, LLC, Westport, CT (US);
Abstract
A venous access port assembly () having a housing base () with a discharge stem (), a septum (), a cap () and an interior reservoir (). The port assembly () is provided with X-ray discernable indicia () to identify an attribute of the assembly () after its implantation and clearly appear on an X-ray of the patient in a manner informing the radiologist or technologist and the medical practitioner of that particular attribute. The indicia are cutouts () through a reservoir lining () of radiopaque material such as metal where the cutouts have narrow slot width are in the form of one or more sets of alphabetical letters such as 'CT' in the lining's side wall () or bottom wall ().