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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:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 29, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey Joseph Vaitekunas, West Chester, OH (US);
Ronald David Adams, Wyoming, OH (US);
Assignee:
Ethicon-Endo Surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
601-2 ;
Abstract
Ultrasonic energy is used to cause a given nerve to become dysfunctional without substantially damaging tissues surrounding or associated with the nerve. A nerve to be treated is placed in the near field or evanescent field of an ultrasonic wave front emitted by an appropriately formed contact or non-contact ultrasonic probe or transducer.