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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:
Sep. 07, 1976
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bruce E Fettel, Diamond Bar, CA (US);
Samuel Burd, Long Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128348 ; 1283 / ; 128D / ; 128D / ;
Abstract
A surgical catheter, exemplified in the preferred embodiment as an embolectomy catheter, which has an expandable tip, an X-ray opaque position indicator, and an expandable balloon to indicate when the expandable tip is inflated is disclosed.