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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2018
Applicant:
Medtronic Xomed, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Inventor:
Samuel Gladstone, Jacksonville, FL (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic Xomed, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61B 17/16 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/320016 (2013.01); A61B 17/1622 (2013.01); A61B 17/1626 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00199 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00221 (2013.01);
Abstract
A powered surgical handpiece includes a housing comprising a motor, and a surgical tool removably coupled to the housing and configured to be driven by the motor. The surgical tool includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The handpiece includes an antenna for wirelessly transmitting RF energy, and a coupler that is electrically isolated from the antenna and the RFID tag and that is configured to guide the transmitted RF energy to the RFID tag.