Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8083734 | Coolant dosing device The invention relates to a coolant dosing device for the application of cryogenic gas for producing low temperatures as required e.g. in cryosurgery. The invention aims to ensure a disturbance-free operation in spite of often dirty gas and to exclude possible operat... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7371128 | Cable terminal with air-enhanced contact pins An electrical connector has a body with a number of probes. Each probe has a spring biased pin with a contact tip, and includes a sleeve receiving the pin. Each sleeve has a first end connected to an incoming conductor, a second end connected to the body and from wh... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7137978 | Cryosurgical instrument and its accessory system The invention is directed to a cryosurgical instrument and to an accessory system operating on the base of refrigerant evaporation, wherein the portions of the refrigerant are periodically provided to the distal cryotip of the cryosurgical instrument via a central l... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7073504 | Contraceptive system and method of use A device and method of using the device for contraception or sterilization and particularly for reversible contraception by occluding a reproductive lumen to prevent the passage of reproductive cells through the lumen for a desired period of time until the patient w... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6960202 | Hand-held apparatus for spray cryotherapy A self-contained cryotherapy apparatus adapted to be operated with one hand, using flashing temperature of a cartridge liquefied gas (CO2) sprayed in partly solid phase onto the epidermis. The cartridge support and the ejection and expansion system are al... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6746445 | Cryoblation catheter handle A cryocatheter system includes a first handle portion having a proximal end, a distal end, a first fluid flow path, and a second fluid flow path; a second handle portion having a proximal end, a distal end, a first fluid flow path, and a second fluid flow path; and ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6280439 | Adjustable position injection tubing A cryogenic catheter includes an outer flexible member having a cryogenic fluid path defined by an injection tube disposed in the outer flexible member. The injection tube is slidably disposed within the outer flexible member. A guide member may be provid... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6036686 | Cryosurgical instrument with grip A hand-held cryosurgical instrument is provided with an insulating, cold-resistive, non-slip grip, which fits onto the neck of a cryosurgical instrument by means of machined threads. The grip has a lip for the users hand to rest against to protect it from... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5868735 | Cryoplasty device and method A cryoplasty catheter and method for preventing or slowing reclosure of a lesion following angioplasty. The cryoplasty catheter includes a shaft having proximal and distal ends and a dilatation balloon disposed at the distal end. An intake lumen and exhau... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5573532 | Cryogenic surgical instrument and method of manufacturing the same A cryogenic surgical instrument and method of manufacturing the same are described. The instrument is a cryosurgical probe having concentrically arranged cryogenic fluid supply and return tubes extending through a concentric handle portion into a closed e... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5520682 | Cryosurgical instrument with vent means and method using same A closed end surgical cryoprobe instrument may have a probe shaft diameter of 3 millimeters or less and can achieve and maintain freezing zone temperatures close to that of the liquid cryogenic refrigerant. Using sub-cooled liquid nitrogen at approximatel... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5501681 | Intrauterine cryoablation cauterizing apparatus and method A method and apparatus for effecting necrosis of a tissue lining of a mammalian body cavity, particularly a uterine endometrium, by introducing an applicator comprising a distendable bladder connected to a catheter into the uterus, distending the bladder ... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5334181 | Cryosurgical system for destroying tumors by freezing An improved cryosurgical system includes means for cooling the cryoprobe instrument to temperatures below the normal boiling point of liquid nitrogen as well as means for recovering the sub-cooled liquid coolant. A unique cryoprobe instrument of simplifie... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5190880 | Tube known as straw, for cryogenically preserving biological samples The tube, known as a straw, according to the invention, is conventional in its form, and is constituted by a rectilinear length of transparent tubular envelope. In the vicinity of a first end, the straw contains a sliding stopper with a quantity of powder... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5086760 | Articulated orthotic brace for an anatomical joint An articulated, orthotic brace for providing support to an anatomical joint including a first support for detachably engaging a body portion adjacent the joint, a second support for detachably engaging a body portion on the opposite side of the joint, and... | 02/11/1992 |
| 4377168 | Cryosurgical instrument A cryosurgical instrument having a cooling mode and a rapid warming or defrost mode is provided with a first conduit through which refrigerant gas is metered to undergo a Joule-Thomson or isoenthalpic expansion adjacent the tip of the instrument to cool t... | 03/22/1983 |
| 4236518 | Cryogenic device selectively operable in a continuous freezing mode, a continuous thawing mode or a combination thereof A cryogenic device utilizing pressurized coolant gas and provided with a single control easily manipulatable by finger pressure to selectively furnish either continuous freezing or continuous thawing, each alone or in sequence. The expansion chamber is pr... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4211231 | Cryosurgical instrument A cryosurgical instrument which may be used with interchangeable spray and closed end cryotips includes a body member with a central bore extending partially therethrough. Refrigerant is supplied to a first point in the bore through a valved refrigerant s... | 07/08/1980 |
| 4146030 | Cryosurgical instrument An improved defrostable cryosurgical instrument has a unitary in-line valve assembly that permits the assembly to be contained right in the instrument itself without making the instrument unduly large, heavy or upsetting its balance. By a fingertip contro... | 03/27/1979 |
| 3993075 | Disposable, defrostable cryosurgical probe A small, disposable cryosurgical probe having a self-contained liquid refrigerant supply can be operated in either a freeze mode or a defrost mode. During the freeze mode the refrigerant is conducted from the supply to the probe tip as a two phase fluid s... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3933156 | Cooling apparatus particularly for medical-surgical use Refrigerating apparatus for medical use including a probe comprising two concentric tubes through the inner tube of which, in use of the apparatus, a refrigerant is forced so as to expand into the outer tube as it leaves the inner tube thereby refrigerati... | 01/20/1976 |
