US Patent Issued to Canon U.S.A, Canon on June 17 for "Antitwist mechanism for robotic endoscope camera" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,354, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon U.S.A Inc. (Melville, N.Y.) and Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Antitwist mechanism for robotic endoscope camera" was invented by Benedict Shia (Needham, Mass.), Junichi Matsumura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takahisa Kato (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable catheter driven by a robotic controller comprises: a catheter body having a catheter tip and tool channel which spans from a proximal end of the catheter body and through the catheter tip along a catheter axis. The catheter tip includes a ramp-like surface formed inside part of the tool channel diameter. The ramp-like surface i...