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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2023
Applicant:
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Inventor:
Hyowon Lee, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Assignee:
Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 25/0017 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0019 (2013.01); A61M 25/0045 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0056 (2013.01); A61M 2205/36 (2013.01); Y10S 977/931 (2013.01);
Abstract
A self-cleaning cannula for placement in a patient, including an elongated tube portion having an inner surface and an oppositely disposed outer surface, a first end fluidically connectable to a fluid source outside the patient and a second, oppositely disposed end for fluidically communicating with the patient, and a plurality of magnetic nanoparticles operationally connected to at least a portion of the cannula. The metallic nanoparticles may be energized by an applied oscillating magnetic field to heat the cannula.