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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. 07, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 24, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
William J Christy, Winter Park, FL (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606144 ; 606139 ; 606223 ;
Abstract
A device for the surgical suturing of narrow incisions that penetrate through a plurality of tissue layers includes a needle having the shape of an elongated 'J.' The device further includes a slidable locking member that serves the dual purpose of blocking the tip of the suture needle and also of preventing gas leakage out of the body cavity during the suturing procedure in order to maintain pneumoperitoneum.