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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:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2009
Applicant:
Charlie Pitman, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Inventor:
Charlie Pitman, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Breast Microseed LLC, Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 36/00 (2006.01); A61N 5/10 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 5/1007 (2013.01); A61B 17/3403 (2013.01); A61N 2005/1012 (2013.01);
Abstract
A mechanism to facilitate the insertion of radioactive sources/source strands into soft tissue, such as breast tissue, and a method that utilizes this mechanism with the goal of improving the reproducibility of the procedure and ensuring that the sources are reliably and consistently inserted in an exact position per a patient prescription treatment plan from patient to patient as well as improve the ease-of-use of the device and procedure are provided.