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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6682561 | Spinal fixation system An implantable, spinal, vertebral replacement device comprises a tubular cage for fitting into a space left by a missing vertebral body and for optionally retaining bone graft material. First and second transverse plates are respectively positioned at opp... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6655344 | Rotary gear device A rotary gear device comprises a housing a preferably multiple pairs of rotatable meshing gears in coaxial relation defining spaced teeth which extend helically in the direction of the axis of each gear. First chambers are formed by the meshing gears whic... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6616635 | Tubular intravenous set A medical needle protector sheath comprises a tubular body for surrounding and shielding a needle, with the sheath defining an anchor member integrally attached to the front of the body for manual holding, plus a closure cap for the front end which is int... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6603546 | Rapid high throughput spectrometer and method A fluorescence spectrometer comprises a laser and at least one beam splitter positioned to receive a light beam from the laser and to divide it into several first light beam portions. Dichroic mirrors are positioned to separately receive the first light b... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6595994 | Cable tensioning device A cable tensioning device comprises tubular shaft having an outer threaded portion, and a handle member surrounding a portion of the shaft, with the shaft and handle member being connected in screw-threaded relation. The shaft moves longitudinally relativ... | 07/22/2003 |
| 6592565 | Patient-tailored, central-vein catheters The method of selecting and implanting a permanent venous catheter into a patient for use in chronic, extracorporeal blood treatment procedures. The method comprises determining the Body Surface Area of the patient. One then selects a permanent venous cat... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6517522 | Tubular intravenous set A medical needle protector sheath comprises a tubular body for surrounding and shielding a needle with the sheath defining an anchor member integrally attached to the front of the body for manual holding, plus a closure cap for the front end which is inte... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6514225 | Dialysis pressure monitoring with clot suppression Pressure is sensed in blood flow tubing by placing an aqueous, preferably isotonic, substantially cell-free solution into branch connection tubing that connects in branching relation with the blood flow tubing at one end. The branch connection tubing also... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6440095 | Pump segment having connected parallel branch line A set for conveying blood between a patient and blood treatment apparatus such as a dialyzer. The set comprises a blood flow conduit, a connector for a patient's vascular system, and a connector for the dialyzer. A portion of the conduit comprises an enla... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6406023 | Blackjack game each player having multiple hands A physical card game or electronically simulated card game is provided in which each of one or more players received cards which define two or more card hands, with at least one card in common. In one embodiment, the initial cards are arranged in a rectan... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6395030 | Spinal fixation system An implantable, spinal, vertebral replacement device comprises a tubular cage for fitting into a space left by a missing vertebral body and for optionally retaining bone graft material. First and second transverse plates are respectively positioned at opp... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6299589 | Flow-through treatment method A flow-through blood treatment device such as a hemodialyzer comprises a housing, a blood inlet, a blood outlet, and at least one membrane in the housing defining a blood flow path between the blood inlet and outlet on one side of the membrane, plus a sec... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6290665 | Blood set priming method and apparatus An extracorporeal blood set may be primed with physiological solution for use in a blood transporting process such as hemodialysis. The set comprises tubing having a patient connector on an end thereof, and a first branch tube in connection with a source ... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6192261 | Photosensor with multiple light sources The quantitative determination of various materials in highly scattering media such as living tissue may be determined in an external, photometric manner by the use of a plurality of light sources positioned at differing distances from a sensor. The light... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6171484 | Bubble trap having inlet/outlet tube and docking port A flow through bubble trap for fluid flow lines comprises a chamber-defining wall and a flow inlet/outlet tube at least substantially extending through the chamber and open at opposed tube ends to respectively define an inlet and an outlet of the bubble t... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6156035 | Electrocautery method and apparatus An electrocautery probe for penetrating through tissue. The probe comprises a tissue-compatible, flexible sleeve; an exposed electrode carried at one end of the sleeve; a wire connected at one end to the electrode and extending through the sleeve; and an ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6113062 | Squeeze clamp A squeeze clamp for flexible tubing comprises a strip of plastic which is bent back on itself so that the ends are adjacent to each other. The strip defines a pair of spaced apertures to permit a flexible tube to extend through and be carried by the clamp... | 09/05/2000 |
