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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:
Sep. 06, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2002
Applicants:
Pamela Lynn Plouhar, South Bend, IN (US);
Prasanna Malaviya, Ft. Wayne, IN (US);
Herbert Eugene Schwartz, Ft. Wayne, IN (US);
Inventors:
Pamela Lynn Plouhar, South Bend, IN (US);
Prasanna Malaviya, Ft. Wayne, IN (US);
Herbert Eugene Schwartz, Ft. Wayne, IN (US);
Assignee:
DePuy Products, Inc., Warsaw, IN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cartilage repair device comprises a scaffold, for example a naturally occurring extracellular matrix material, and a biological lubricant. The biological lubricant is applied to the naturally occurring extracellular matrix material.