US Patent Issued to Imperative Care on Dec. 30 for "Magnetic coupling through a sterile field barrier" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,093, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Imperative Care Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Magnetic coupling through a sterile field barrier" was invented by Jason Lee (Seattle), Zachary Morley (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Matthew Hutter (Los Angeles), Kyle Bartholomew (Campbell, Calif.), Lilip Lau (Los Altos, Calif.) and Sean Totten (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hub assembly for a robotically driven interventional device can include an interventional device hub having an interventional device and at least one magnet. The hub assembly can be configured to be positioned on a sterile side of a sterile field barrier and magnetically ...