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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:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard L Kronenthal, Fair Lawn, NJ (US);
Arthur A Gertzman, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Douglas R Valentine, Oakdale, CT (US);
Assignee:
Xomed Surgical Products, Inc., Jacksonville, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F / ; A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604358 ; 604904 ; 606196 ;
Abstract
A surgical sponge device comprising a porous cellular absorbent sponge which is cut into rigid segments. The segments are slidably mounted on a strand with a stop to keep the segments from falling off of said strand. The strung segments may be covered by a fluid impervious sleeve which, when removed, allows the rigid segments to wick up fluid to expand from a compressed condition to a predetermined larger size.