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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2008
Timothy M. Schweikert, Levittown, PA (US);
Raymond R. Bizup, Feasterville, PA (US);
Kevin E. Sanford, Chalfont, PA (US);
Kenneth M. Zinn, Westport, CT (US);
Timothy M. Schweikert, Levittown, PA (US);
Raymond R. Bizup, Feasterville, PA (US);
Kevin E. Sanford, Chalfont, PA (US);
Kenneth M. Zinn, Westport, CT (US);
Medical Components, Inc., Harleysville, PA (US);
Innovative Medical Devices, LLC, Westport, CT (US);
Abstract
A venous access port assembly having a housing base with a discharge port, a septum and a cap. An interior reservoir is defined by a well in the housing base and a bottom of the septum, and a passageway extends from the reservoir through the discharge port. The housing base includes a base flange having integrally molded therein indicia identifying an attribute of the assembly. The indicia could be formed of base flange material, or could be formed by voids in the base flange material. If of plastic material, the molded indicia could be applied with a radiopaque agent, thereby allowing the indicia ('CT') to appear on an X-ray of the patient in a manner informing a practitioner of a particular attribute of the assembly.