ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,089, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to EndoQuest Robotics Inc. (Houston).
"Steerable overtube assemblies for robotic surgical systems" was invented by Daniel Kim (Houston), Yongman Park (Houston), Raymond Lee (Houston), Sungwoo Cho (Houston) and Dongsuk Shin (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable overtube assembly for a robotic surgical system can include a steerable shaft having one or more instrument channel and a control hub configured to mount to the steerable shaft. The assembly can also include a manual actuator extending from the control hub and configured to allow the steerable shaft to be manually steered by a ...