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Negative pressure unit

Granted 10 Mar 2020 · 4 office actions

Application
29/603,280
filed 8 May 2017
Publication
Not published
not published
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US D877889
granted 10 Mar 2020

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Description

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›This invention was made with government support under…

This invention was made with government support under Contract FA8650-13-12-6372 awarded by the Department of the Air Force. The government has certain rights in the invention.

FIG. 1 is an top front perspective view of a negative pressure unit showing our new design;

FIG. 2 is a front elevational view thereof;

FIG. 3 is a rear elevational view thereof;

FIG. 4 is a right side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 5 is a left side elevational view thereof;

FIG. 6 is a top plan view thereof;

FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view thereof; and,

FIG. 8 is an top rear perspective view thereof.

The broken lines in the drawings illustrate portions of the negative pressure unit that form no part of the claimed design.

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Claims

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USPC · US Patent Classification
D24/111

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1
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Examiner
Lilyana Bekic
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USthis patentUS-D877889-SS110 Mar 20208 May 2017grantedNegative pressure unit
›Other offices — 3 members
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AUAU-201716768-SS8 Jan 20187 Nov 2017publishedNegative pressure unit
AUAU-201810049-SS8 Jan 20184 Jan 2018publishedNegative pressure unit
CACA-178091-SS30 Oct 20187 Nov 2017grantedMulti-channel negative-pressure therapy unit

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