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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. 11, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Antony J. Fields, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gary B. Greenburg, Millbrae, CA (US);
Alexander Kazaks, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joshua Korman, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Reconstructive Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/02 ; A61B 1/708 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/02 ; A61B 1/708 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for increasing the rate of expansion of tissue area and volume, either in vivo or in vitro, which comprises a tissue expansion device suitable for expansion of tissue and a controller connected to the device, wherein the controller causes the device to subject the tissue to stretching forces that alternatively increase and decrease to provide a series of stretch and relax phases during a period of tissue expansion without intervention of an operator.