US 12,310,692 B2Granted

Surgical drape for thermal treatment basin

AssigneeMedline Industries, Inc.

InventorsHeidi Frances Hendrix, David Richard Rawlings, Michelle Wilson

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Abstract

A drape for a piece of equipment used during a medical procedure may be formed of a flexible sheet of polymeric material. The flexible sheet can have a basin portion shape-indexed to a basin or reservoir of the piece of equipment over which the drape is intended to be draped. The flexible sheet can also have a side sheet portion connected to the basin portion. The side sheet portion can drape down the basin or reservoir of the piece of equipment over which the drape is draped. The basin portion of the flexible sheet can be collapsible. As a result, the drape can be collapsed into planar package for storage. Upon being removed from the package, the basin portion of the drape can be expanded to conform to the walls of the basin of the piece of equipment over which the drape is deployed.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A drape for a surgical fluid thermal treatment system comprising:

a flexible sheet having a basin portion fabricated from a first polymer composition, a window portion fabricated from a second polymer composition different than the first polymer composition, and a side sheet portion fabricated from a third polymer composition different than the first polymer composition and the second polymer composition, the side sheet portion extending from the basin portion, wherein the basin portion is configured to be positioned in an open basin of a surgical fluid thermal treatment system and the side sheet portion is configured to be positioned extending outwardly and downwardly from the open basin of the surgical fluid thermal treatment system;
and
a near field communication tag positioned in the side sheet portion of the flexible sheet, the near field communication tag being sandwiched between two sheets of material bonded together to define a pocket therebetween.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/453,302Filed 21 Aug 2023 · continuation
Priority: 27 Sep 2017
Published: US 2023/0390014 A17 Dec 2023
Granted: 27 May 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

A61B 46/10
Surgical drapes: specially adapted for instruments, e.g. microscopes
A61B 46/40
Surgical drapes: drape material, e.g. laminates; Manufacture thereof
A61F 7/0085
Heating or cooling appliances for medical or therapeutic treatment of the human body: devices for generating hot or cold treatment fluids
A61F 7/0241
Compresses or poultices for effecting heating or cooling: apparatus for the preparation of hot packs, hot compresses, cooling pads, e.g. heaters…

Family

Application62/564,229Us provisional application · filed 27 Sep 2017
Application16/144,706Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Sep 2018
US 2023/0390014 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Dec 2023
US 11,730,555 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0090972 A1Published application
US 12,310,692 B2This patent

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