Patents by Inventor Patti B. Paschal

Patti B. Paschal has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Surgical microscope operating drape and methods of operation and manufacture thereof
    Patent number: 6116741
    Abstract: For use with a surgical microscope having an objective lens barrel protruding therefrom, drapes, methods of draping the microscope and methods of manufacturing the drapes. In one embodiment, a drape includes: (1) a sheet, having a sheet aperture therethrough, that covers at least a portion of the surgical microscope, (2) a rigid, planar seal mount, coupled to the sheet and having a mount aperture therethrough that aligns with the sheet aperture and (3) an elastomeric sheet seal, coupled to the planar seal mount and having a dilatable seal aperture therethrough that has a constricted diameter less than the mount aperture, aligns with the mount aperture, expands to receive the objective lens barrel therethrough and elastically constricts about the objective lens barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: DEKA Medical, Incorporated
    Inventor: Patti B. Paschal