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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:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2009
Applicants:
Edward Diao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rajan Kashibhai Patel, Woodside, CA (US);
Inventors:
Edward Diao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rajan Kashibhai Patel, Woodside, CA (US);
Assignee:
Socorro Medical, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 21/00 (2006.01); A61B 10/06 (2006.01); A61B 17/29 (2006.01); A61B 17/295 (2006.01); A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61B 17/16 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 10/06 (2013.01); A61B 17/295 (2013.01); A61B 17/2909 (2013.01); A61B 17/320036 (2013.01); A61B 17/1608 (2013.01); A61B 17/1611 (2013.01); A61B 17/1686 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00464 (2013.01); A61B 2017/2946 (2013.01); A61B 2019/4842 (2013.01); A61B 2019/4857 (2013.01);
Abstract
A handpiece for removably attaching one of a plurality of probes including a housing, an actuation assembly arranged on the housing, a linkage assembly arranged on the housing and adapted to couple motion of the actuation assembly to actuation of the probe and an alignment feature arranged on the housing and adapted to control the orientation of a connected probe. Several probes are also disclosed in addition to method of performing a procedure.