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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. 05, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Walid N Aboul-Hosn, Sacramento, CA (US);
William Russell Kanz, Sacramento, CA (US);
Kelly McCrystle, Healdsburg, CA (US);
Roland W Ziegler, Cameron Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
A-Med Systems, Inc., West Sacramento, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600231 ; 600227 ; 600232 ;
Abstract
A surgical retractor has a connection region to connect to cannulas, tubing, blood pumps, and the like. By fixing these items against the surgical retractor, they are kept out of the surgical field of view and thus do not interfere with the surgery.