US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 19 for "Catheters with control modes for interchangeable probes" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,618, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Catheters with control modes for interchangeable probes" was invented by Vincent Duindam (San Francisco) and Giuseppe Maria Prisco (Calci Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system including a catheter, a sheath, and a control system. The catheter includes a lumen, a distal steerable segment, and a distal tip. The sheath is disposed within the lumen of the catheter and the sheath is extendable from the distal tip of the catheter. The control system is coupled to the catheter and includes a memory operable to store desired...