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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:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
May. 25, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Alexander Berghaus, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG, , DE;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 5/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 5/08 ;
Abstract
A medical instrument for use in rhinoplasty has a first rod-shaped element that comprises a distal portion intended to hold nasal cartilage of a nose side. The instrument further comprises a second rod-shaped element having a distal portion for holding nasal cartilage of the other side of the nose, there being provided a fixing element which is detachably mounted on the first element and the second element and which mutually fixes the two elements one beside the other in approximately parallel alignment one relative to the other.