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US 7,578,532 B2Granted
Multi-use linkage device
OwnerMark Schieblerinventor
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Abstract
A linkage device that can be connected with other linkage devices and to itself, the linkage device comprising a strip having a first end and a second end, a closure hub attached to the first end of the strip and having an opening to receive a second end and a locking mechanism within the closure hub, a connecting surface protruding from the strip operable to secure the second end within a closure device, and a tampering detection device connected to the linkage device.
Claims19
A linkage system, said system comprising:
- (a) linkage device comprising a strip, a closure hub attached to a first end of said strip and having an opening to receive a second end of said strip and a locking mechanism within said closure hub to hold said second end so that said second end cannot be pulled out of said opening without user authorization, a connecting surface on said strip operable to secure said second end within said closure hub, an application distinct tag connected to said linkage device;
- (b) a tampering detection device;
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- (c) a detection device that is operable to perform at least one of reading information contained on said application distinct tag and determining whether said linkage device has been tampered with;
- wherein said linkage device is X-ray and MRI compatible;
- wherein said detection device at least one of identifies a change in electric flux within said linkage device, identifies a change in photon flux within said linkage device, and induces a flux in said linkage device which in turn sends a signal to said detection device;
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- wherein said linkage device further comprises at least one input port wherein information is accessible by said detection device through said input port.
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A linkage system, said system comprising:
- linkage device comprising a strip, a closure hub attached to a first end of said strip and having an opening to receive a second end of said strip and a locking mechanism within said closure hub to hold said second end so that said second end cannot be pulled out of said opening without user authorization, a connecting surface on said strip operable to secure said second end within said closure hub, an application distinct tag connected to said linkage device;
- a tampering detection device;
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- a detection device that is operable to perform at least one of reading information contained on said application distinct tag and determining whether said linkage device has been tampered with;
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- wherein said detection device supplies electricity to said linkage device and reads an electric level from said linkage device.
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A linkage system, said system comprising:
- (a) linkage device comprising a strip, a closure hub attached to a first end of said strip and having an opening to receive a second end of said strip and a locking mechanism within said closure hub to hold said second end so that said second end cannot be pulled out of said opening without user authorization, a connecting surface on said strip operable to secure said second end within said closure hub, an application distinct tag connected to said linkage device;
- (b) a tampering detection device;
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- (c) a detection device that is operable to perform at least one of reading information contained on said application distinct tag and determining whether said linkage device has been tampered with;
- wherein said linkage device is X-ray and MRI compatible;
- and
- wherein said detection device at least one of identifies a change in electric flux within said linkage device, identifies a change in photon flux within said linkage device, and induces a flux in said linkage device which in turn sends a signal to said detection device;
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- wherein said application distinct tag is illuminated by at least one of an internal photon generating device and an external photon generating device.
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A linkage system, said system comprising:
- (a) linkage device comprising a strip, a closure hub attached to a first end of said strip and having an opening to receive a second end of said strip and a locking mechanism within said closure hub to hold said second end so that said second end cannot be pulled out of said opening without user authorization, a connecting surface on said strip operable to secure said second end within said closure hub, an application distinct tag connected to said linkage device, a material that is at least one of an antibiotic medicine and an anti-fungal medicine, a bacteriostatic coating, a biologically active molecule that elutes into extra cellular spaces surrounding the linkage device, chemotherapeutic drugs, white cell chemotaxins, bone growth stimulants, and bone destructing inhibitors and a bactericidal coating;
- (b) a tampering detection device;
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- (c) a detection device that is operable to perform at least one of reading information contained on said application distinct tag and determining whether said linkage device has been tampered with;
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- wherein said linkage device is X-ray and MRI compatible.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.