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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:
Jan. 03, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert F Spencer, Concord, NH (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604151 ;
Abstract
A pump or method supplying patient controlled analgesia to a patient. The infusion flow rate of the analgesic is increased in response to a command given by the patient receiving the analgesic, and a lock out interval is provided during which time the actuation of the pump by the patient produces no further incremental increase in the flow rate of the analgesic.