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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:
Apr. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael R Van Driel, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Darren S Gray, Grand Junction, CO (US);
Victor C Lam, Honolulu, HI (US);
Amy P Noss, Westerville, OH (US);
Jill E Uyeno, Honolulu, HI (US);
Yu-Tung Wong, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
177245 ; 604 65 ;
Abstract
An accurate real-time volume measurement of the blood content of a soft-shell venous reservoir is obtained by computing the volume from the weight of the blood in the reservoir modified by the hematocrit of the blood.