ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,602, issued on May 13, was assigned to Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).
"Medical probe having improved maneuverability" was invented by Yehuda Algawi (Binyamina, Israel), Assaf Govari (Haifa, Israel) and Ilya Sitnitsky (Nahariya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical probe includes a shaft for insertion into a cavity of a patient body, and a distal-end assembly. The distal-end assembly is coupled to a distal end of the shaft and includes a hollow tube having (i) a first opening, located at a first section along a longitudinal axis of the hollow tube, and having a first size that limits bending of the first ...