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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:
Jul. 08, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lawrence J Straka, Jr, Issaquah, WA (US);
Assignee:
Quinton Instrument Company, Bothell, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
128641 ;
Abstract
A medical electrode and skin preparation device is adapted to be secured to the skin of a patient and is designed to allow the user to acquire physiological signals for use by a plurality of signal acquisition devices and optionally to also reliably prepare the skin of the patient by abrasion or penetration of the epidermal layer of the skin which is in conductive contact with the conductive member of the electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a plurality of post members capable of conducting physiological signals received from the skin of the patient for acquisition, recording and/or analysis by one or more external devices.