US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Sept. 9 for "Tissue visualization and manipulation system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,824, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Tissue visualization and manipulation system" was invented by Vahid Saadat (Atherton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue imaging assembly includes a steerable sheath and a steerable catheter deployable within the sheath. The tissue imaging assembly also includes an imaging hood at a distal end of the steerable catheter. The imaging hood is independently translatable with respect to the steerable sheath and the steerable catheter. The steerable catheter includes an imaging element and a lumen for delivering an elongate instrum...