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Biopsy device

Granted 1 Dec 2015 · no office action yet

Current assignee: Bank of America Corporation · originally Hologic, Inc.

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Inventors: Eric Collins, Mark A. Catron · Examiner: Robert M Spear

Application
29/503,403
filed 25 Sep 2014
Publication
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US D744650
granted 1 Dec 2015

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view…

FIG. 1 is a top front perspective view of a first embodiment of the biopsy device;

FIG. 2 is a top view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a bottom view thereof; and

FIG. 4 is a left side view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a right side view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a front view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a rear view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is a top front perspective view thereof shown connected to a drive unit.

Any broken line illustration of environmental structure in the drawings is not part of the design sought to be patented.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/146

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