ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,656, issued on May 20, was assigned to Remedy Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).
"Image space controlled manual catheter" was invented by Jake Anthony Sganga (San Francisco) and David James Bell (Mill Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable catheter system includes a steerable catheter including a handle and a steerable elongated body. The handle includes user inputs for image space control commands for articulating the elongated body with respect to a plane of a medical image. The elongated body includes pose determination features that allow determination of a roll angle of the elongated body. The system also includes...