Covering element for veins, method for the production and use thereof in surgery

US7691460B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Aesculap AG & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Anton Moritz · Dreieich, DE
• Helmut Goldmann · Tuttlingen, DE
• Patricia Kreuz · Tuttlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 25, 2002
• Grant date: Apr 6, 2010
• Expiry date: Dec 14, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/139
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Sheathing for reinforcing natural veins for use as surgical implants in the form of textile netting that is configured by forming a seamless, tubular, essentially pile-less, knit fabric and has loops having large, open apertures having essentially polygonal shapes is made available.