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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:
Apr. 18, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Russ Durgin, Attleboro, MA (US);
Assignee:
Scimed Lifesystems, Inc., Maple Grove, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606 47 ; 606 48 ; 606 50 ;
Abstract
A device for cutting tissue from a body comprises a cutting member including a cable formed of first and second conductors insulated from one another. The first and second conductors are arranged in an alternating distribution along the cutting member with the first conductor having a plurality of exposed portions forming a plurality of first electrodes and the second conductor having a plurality of exposed portions forming a plurality of second electrodes. The first and second electrodes are distributed along a cutting edge of the cutting member.