MEDICAL DEVICES EQUIPMENT NAMELY

Brand	Owner (click to sort)	Address	Description
TTC	ORATEC INTERVENTIONS, INC.	3700 Haven Court Menlo Park CA 94025	Medical devices and equipment namely, a thermal surgery system comprised primarily of interchangeable probes and a radio frequency generator for use in electro-surgery;
VAS-CATH	Vas-Cath of Canada Limited	20 Ripley Ave. Toronto, Ontario M6S 3N9 Canada	Medical Devices and Equipment-Namely, Cannula for Hemoidalysis and Related Uses;
	Where the owner name is not linked, that owner no longer owns the brand

Technical Examples

A disposable medical item for use with medical equipment includes circuitry forming an electrical path between the item and medical equipment. The circuitry is coupled to a medical equipment controller or independent microprocessor and includes a fuse. The controller transmits a status signal over the path in response to the equipment receiving the item. A disabled fuse prevents traversal of the path by the status signal, thereby indicating prior item use. If the controller does not detect the status signal, medical equipment operation is disabled. Otherwise, the controller transmits over the path a signal sufficient to disable the fuse to indicate item use and verifies the disabled fuse status. If the disabled fuse status is verified, the controller enables equipment operation. The controller periodically checks the fuse status during equipment operation and disables operation in response to a prior used item inserted into the medical equipment.