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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:
Nov. 28, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Russell B Thompson, Los Altos, CA (US);
Edward J Snyder, San Jose, CA (US);
Sidney D Fleischman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
James G Whayne, Saratoga, CA (US);
Thomas R Jenkins, Oakland, CA (US);
Assignee:
EP Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
606 41 ; 606 46 ; 606 47 ; 606 49 ; 600374 ; 600393 ; 607 99 ;
Abstract
A surgical device including a relatively short shaft, a bendable spline assembly associated with the distal end of the shaft and having a predetermined configuration, the spline assembly being adapted to collapse in response to an application of an external force and to expand to the predetermined configuration in response to a withdrawal of the external force, and an operative element associated with the bendable spline assembly.