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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:
Oct. 20, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stefan Hessel, Munchen, DE;
Patricia Taige, Ottobrunn, DE;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606 15 ; 606 16 ; 128397 ; 128398 ; 128 20 ;
Abstract
An arthroscopic probe having an elongated shaft with a small probing hook, which can be used for diagnostic purposes and which, for therapeutic purposes, has a longitudinally displaceable optical fiber guided at the distal end of the probing hook so that it is curved by approximately 30.degree..