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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. 26, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 17, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert V Snyders, Clayton, MO (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600 16 ; 128 64 ; 600 37 ;
Abstract
A cardiac assist envelope for endoscopic application to permit the anatomic insertion of the envelope through an endoscopic cannula in which the body of the envelope is formed of a flexible but inelastic material and has form shaping spring elements embedded in the material to allow for folding of the envelope for endoscopic insertion and spring back of the material to a configuration necessary for cardiac assist function through a single driver conduit with shuttle gas flow divisions.