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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. 06, 1983
Filed:
Aug. 19, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard L Goode, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ; A61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128 / ; 128 / ; 128342 ; 128346 ;
Abstract
A surgical nasal septum splint comprising a pair of members, each of which having a thin, flat body with a posterior end adapted to be inserted into the nasal passage and to be positionable interiorly thereof and with an anterior end adapted to be positionable adjacent the nasal columella, said body carrying a plurality of spaced magnets, the magnets adjacent the anterior end having a different polarity from the magnets adjacent the posterior end of each body, and the correspondingly positioned magnets in said pair of members being of opposite polarity so as to be attracted to each other when the members are in place on opposite sides of the nasal septum.