The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Aug. 07, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2002
Applicant:
Lutz Freitag, Hemer, DE;
Inventor:
Lutz Freitag, Hemer, DE;
Assignee:
Alveolus, Inc., Charlotte, NC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/06 (2006.01); A61F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention relates to removable, essentially cylindrical implants which are characterized in that they can be reduced in diameter and are wrapped once or several times at one or more levels by one or more elastic, thin wire-shaped structure(s) () which include(s) a catch device () at least on one end thereof.