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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:
Oct. 05, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wolfgang Daum, Schwerin, DE;
Axel Winkel, Zapel Hof, DE;
Assignee:
Daum GmbH, , DE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600407 ; 600414 ; 600421 ;
Abstract
The invention provides a device for correlating the internal location of an anatomical point of a human or animal patient with a location on the external body contours of the patient. In one embodiment, the invention is particularly suited for external positioning of a medical instrument for insertion into the patient's body to contact the anatomical point