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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. 20, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Douglass G Whitney, Roswell, GA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606 41 ; 606198 ;
Abstract
A method of repairing a blood vessel having a narrowed portion therein comprising the steps of expanding the narrowed portion of the blood vessel so that the diameter of the blood vessel after expansion is enlarged; and then maintaining an electronegative potential on the interior surface of the expanded narrowed portion of the blood vessel to at least as great as any electropositive potential generated by the blood vessel as a result of the injury to the blood vessel caused by the expansion thereof.