Owner DePuy AcroMed, Inc.

Inventors Patel, Samit; Pellegrino, Richard C.; Sutton, Jeffrey; Papineau, Paula; Crombie, John S.

Agent Callinan

Pub. Number AU-B-2003255203

Priority 10/259,689 30.09.02 US

Filing date 21 October 2003

Wipo publication date 22 April 2004

Acceptance publication date 22 November 2007

A61B 17/56 (2006.01) Surgery - Surgical instruments or methods for treatment of bones or joints

A61B 10/00 (2006.01) Other methods or instruments for diagnosis, e.g. for vaccination diagnosis

A61B 17/16 (2006.01) Surgery - Osteoclasts

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

A61B 17/34 (2006.01) Surgery - Trocars

A61B 18/12 (2006.01) Surgical instruments, devices or methods for transferring non-mechanical forms of energy to or from the body - by passing a current through the tissue to be heated, e.g. high-frequency current

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 17/00 (2006.01) Surgery

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

A61B 17/28 (2006.01) Surgery - Surgical forceps