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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:
Apr. 07, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard A Lane, Fort Wayne, IN (US);
Assignee:
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606 99 ; 606207 ; 81418 ;
Abstract
A prosthetic gripping instrument 10 for inserting or removing an orthopaedic product 1. The instrument 10 has a first gripping jaw 20 which is pivotally attached and a second gripping jaw 30 which is swivelably attached. This allows the instrument 10 to be used with a wide variety of orthopaedic products having varying geometries, such as various styles of hip stem implants or other surgical products.