Surgical sponge
CA 1290145 C · Owner: Jessup, James Lyle · Inventors: Jessup, James Lyle
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Apparatus for forming an item such as a surgical sponge which comprises a sheet of absorbent material. The sponge has an elongated visually detectable element at a visible location on the sheet comprising a pair of elongated twisted strands. One of the strands has a colour which contrasts with the colour of the sheet, and the other of said strands has a colour which contrasts with the colour of blood.
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- Granted October 8, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 8, 2008.
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