Surgery – Instruments – Cutting – puncturing or piercing
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-16
2011-08-16
Brown, Michael A. (Department: 3772)
Surgery
Instruments
Cutting, puncturing or piercing
C178S079000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07998158
ABSTRACT:
A cutting saw blade for use with an oscillatory power tool used in surgical bone cutting procedures including a blade having a distal end provided with teeth whose tips are located on a tangent line perpendicular to the long axis of the blade. The teeth are configured substantially as right triangles with their hypotenuses facing either towards the center of the blade or away from the center of the blade. A central tooth can be optionally provided. The surgical saw blade may have a distal end having at least one pair of teeth configured to be adjacent to each other and each of the pair of teeth is configured as a right triangle each having a hypotenuse which is oriented at least one of towards and away from the centrally positioned long axis.
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Fisher Michael Gerard
Fletcher Henry Hasbrouck
Brown Michael A.
Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
Synvasive Technology, Inc.
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