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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. 24, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2007
Applicant:
Peter Butcher, Nottingham, GB;
Inventor:
Peter Butcher, Nottingham, GB;
Assignee:
NuVasive, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 7/08 (2006.01); A61B 17/70 (2006.01); D05B 93/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An embroidery process allowing for extra lengths of stitched thread pairs to be laid down in a zigzag pattern while embroidering on a dissolvable substrate such that when the substrate is removed, the extra length allows the two-dimensional embroidered structure to relax into a three-dimensional shape.