Disposable probe cover assembly for medical thermometer
CA 2001195 C · Owner: Suszynski, Edward D. · Inventors: Meyst, Richard P.; Suszynski, Edward D.
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A probe cover assembly for use in covering and protecting the elongated probe of a medical thermometer. The assembly has three laminated layers including a flat, base layer with an aperture sized to slide over the probe, an intermediate stretchable film and a protective, paper layer having radially-aligned perforations aligned with the base layer aperture. In use, the probe cover assembly is placed on the probe by inserting the probe through the base layer aperture, from the assembly's paper layer side, to stretch the plastic film over the probe, with the perforated paper functioning initially to separate the probe from the film and thereby prevent the film from initially sticking to the …
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- Filed October 23, 1989 and granted October 25, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 23, 2009.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 23, 2011.
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