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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:
Dec. 19, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 11, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jack L Coffey, Camarillo, CA (US);
Steven G Hauser, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Bing Bing Zhu, Northridge, CA (US);
Assignee:
Syncor International Corporation, Woodland Hills, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ; A61M / ; G21C / ; G21F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604198 ; 604187 ; 604192 ; 604197 ; 604272 ; 604263 ; 2505151 ; 2505061 ;
Abstract
A shielding device and method for injecting a patient with radioactive material from a syringe to reduce exposure of workers to the radioactive material in the syringe. After the injection, the syringe needle falls away from the shield, thereby minimizing the risk of contamination of the shield from the contaminated syringe needle.