Patents by Inventor Stephen D. Feid

Stephen D. Feid 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).

  • Containerless tissue sample collection trap
    Patent number: 7182754
    Abstract: A containerless tissue sample collection trap featuring, in the preferred embodiment, a flexible filter and an applicator having a shaft terminating in a distal end with a channel therein receiving a portion of the flexible filter, the combination of the applicator and the flexible filter receivable in a suction tube and configured such that when the applicator is removed, the flexible filter forms a removable elongated tissue trap in the suction tube. Also disclosed is a method of trapping tissue wholly within a suction tube thereby eliminating the need for a specimen trap container and a method of making a containerless tissue specimen trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: N.M. Beale Company
    Inventors: Lynette E. Brigham, Nathaniel M. Beale, Stephen D. Feid
  • Containerless tissue sample collection trap
    Publication number: 20030236507
    Abstract: A containerless tissue sample collection trap featuring, in the preferred embodiment, a flexible filter and an applicator having a shaft terminating in a distal end with a channel therein receiving a portion of the flexible filter, the combination of the applicator and the flexible filter receivable in a suction tube and configured such that when the applicator is removed, the flexible filter forms a removable elongated tissue trap in the suction tube. Also disclosed is a method of trapping tissue wholly within a suction tube thereby eliminating the need for a specimen trap container and a method of making a containerless tissue specimen trap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Inventors: Lynette E. Brigham, Nathaniel M. Beale, Stephen D. Feid