Owner Tyco Healthcare Group LP

Inventors Bayer, Hanspeter, Robert

Agent Spruson & Ferguson

Pub. Number AU-B-2002345954

PCT Number PCT/US02/20450

PCT Pub. Number WO2003/000139

Priority 60/301,059 26.06.01 US

Filing date 26 June 2002

Wipo publication date 8 January 2003

Acceptance publication date 28 February 2008

A61B 17/00 (2006.01) Surgery

A61B 17/02 (2006.01) Surgery - for holding wounds open

A61B 17/12 (2006.01) Surgery - for ligaturing or otherwise compressing tubular parts of the body, e.g. blood vessels or umbilical cord

A61B 17/125 (2006.01) Surgery

A61B 17/32 (2006.01) Surgery - Surgical cutting instruments

A61B 18/00 (2006.01) Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body

A61B 18/04 (2006.01) Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body - by heating

A61B 18/14 (2006.01) Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body - Probes or electrodes therefor

A61B 17/22 (2006.01) Surgery - Implements for squeezing-off ulcers or the like on inner organs of the body

A61B 19/00 (2006.01) Instruments, implements or accessories for surgery or diagnosis not covered by any of the groups , e.g. for stereotaxis, sterile operation, luxation treatment, wound edge protectors