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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:
Dec. 22, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark I Berns, Northbrook, IL (US);
Assignee:
Cabot Technology Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600434 ;
Abstract
An apparatus is provided for aligning a damaged tubular organ. One component includes a magnetically attractable element and another component includes means for generating a magnetic field sufficient to attract the magnetically attractable element. In use, one component is inserted toward a damaged region of a tubular organ and the other component is inserted through another segment of the tubular organ toward the damaged region. The components attract one another to engage one another along a substantially common axis in order to align the tubular organ along that axis.