Pressure sensing scope cannula
CA 2027683 C · Owner: Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company · Inventors: Desatnick, Allen H.; Marcus, Herbert D.; Torrie, Paul Alexander
Overview
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An arthroscope cannula including inner and outer intimately engaged concentric tubes with the inner tube having a longitudinally extending wall depression defining in, conjunction with the outer tube, a pressure passage. The inner tube receives the scope which is restrained therein by the wall depression to define an inflow fluid passage. The outer tube is selectively removable from about the inner tube with both tubes mounting on and projecting from a flow controlling and directing bridge assembly.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 15, 1990 and granted July 10, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended October 15, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 15, 2012.
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