US Patent Issued to Indian Wells Medical on Oct. 14 for "Robotically controlled steerable access system and method of use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,287, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Indian Wells Medical Inc. (Lake Forest, Calif.).

"Robotically controlled steerable access system and method of use" was invented by Jay Alan Lenker (Lake Forest, Calif.), James Alexander Carroll (Long Beach, Calif.) and Eugene Michael Breznock (Winters, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoluminal traversing system and tissue crossing system are described wherein the access systems are controlled by actuators that allow for robotic control of system functions. The robotic system can be configured for full manual control over the actuators, full computerized control, or a combination of ...