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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:
Aug. 15, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roy D Gravener, Fairfield, CT (US);
Assignee:
United States Surgical Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
227176 ; 227175 ; 227 19 ; 606151 ;
Abstract
A surgical device for clamping body tissue between two movable members, for example a surgical stapling apparatus, includes a sheet of curved resilient material attached to one or both of the members for biasing the body tissue when the members are closed onto the tissue.
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