Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tumor debulker
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Application No.: US14479714Application Date: 2014-09-08
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Publication No.: US09636132B2Publication Date: 2017-05-02
- Inventor: Thoai Nguyen , Phillip J. Berman , Dana A. Oliver , Louis M. Shadeck
- Applicant: MEDTRONIC-XOMED, INC.
- Applicant Address: US FL Jacksonville
- Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US FL Jacksonville
- Agency: Dicke, Billig & Czaja, PLLC
- Main IPC: A61B17/12
- IPC: A61B17/12 ; A61B17/32 ; A61B17/00

Abstract:
A cutting device for use with a powered surgical tool includes an outer blade and an inner blade. The outer blade includes a tubular body, an end cap, and a cutting window defined by a beveled edge on the tubular body and the end cap. The inner blade includes a cutting tip. The inner blade co-axially disposed within the outer blade such that the cutting tip is rotatably exposed at the cutting window. The cutting tip has castellations extending toward the end cap of the outer blade and opposing teeth extending radially toward one another across an opening of the cutting tip.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160066942A1 TUMOR DEBULKER Public/Granted day:2016-03-10
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