US Patent Issued to Canon U.S.A. on Sept. 30 for "Bendable medical device with multiple position sensors" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,957, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Bendable medical device with multiple position sensors" was invented by Christopher Charles Kaiser (Acton, Mass.), Lydia Olson (Swampscott, Mass.) and Benedict Shia (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of a device comprise a tubular flexible body that includes a channel though a longitudinal axis; a first sensor that is located in a distal end of the tubular flexible body; a second sensor that is located in the distal end of the tubular flexible body; and wiring that connects to the first sensor and the second sensor and that ext...