Patent ID: 9237905
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: A61B,A61M

Claim Text:
1. A medical instrument for insertion into a subject, comprising an elongate body comprising a proximal end and a distal end, a broad face, a narrow face, a lateral side and a counter-lateral side, the broad and narrow faces being linear and parallel to one another, and said later and counter-lateral sides each spanning between the broad face and narrow face, and a triangular blade extending from the distal end, the blade comprising a blade bottom surface that extends distally from and is co-planar to the broad face wherein the distal end comprises a slope between the broad face and the narrow face, wherein a longitudinal channel is disposed between the broad face, narrow face, lateral side and counter-lateral side of the medical instrument, wherein the distal end of at least one of the broad and narrow faces comprises a cutting edge and wherein the broad face comprises opposing edges that are linear and parallel from the distal end to the proximal end and the narrow face comprises opposing edges that are linear and parallel from the distal end to the proximal end.