Apparatus for mapping and coagulating soft tissue in or around body orifices
CA 2394816 C · Owner: Thompson, Russell B. · Inventors: Thompson, Russell B.; Swanson, David K.; Koblish, Josef V.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A probe that mays be used to create circumferential lesions in body tissue and, in some implementations, may also be used to perform mapping functions. The probe includes a collapsible/expandable structure that supports electrodes or other operative elements against the body tissue.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 22, 2000 and granted September 13, 2011. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 22, 2020.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 22, 2022.
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