US Patent Issued on Oct. 14 for "Flexing structure with cutouts for a medical device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,092, issued on Oct. 14.

"Flexing structure with cutouts for a medical device" was invented by Emmanuel Hallauer (Sache, France) and Pascal Cochard (Dierre, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexing structure for an insertion tube of a medical device including tubular vertebrae with a proximal tubular vertebra and a distal tubular vertebra and at least one actuating cable surrounded by a sheath over at least part of its length, the flexing structure including a tube cut with energy-beam cutting lines to create tubular vertebrae that nest in one another, the proximal tubular vertebra including, for each actuating cable, a radial ...