US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on May 13 for "Pull-cable management for steerable catheter" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,786, issued on May 13, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Pull-cable management for steerable catheter" was invented by Dino Francesco Cuscuna (Reading, Mass.), Edward Chan (Brookline, Mass.), John Bench Caswell (Manchester, N.H.) and Brian Michael Bishop (Pelham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable catheter comprises a transducer that is situated at a flexible distal end, and is coupled to the handle of the catheter via an insertion tube. The flexible distal end is controlled by a plurality of articulation pull-cables that extend from an articulation control device in the handle to the fa...