US Patent Issued to Stryker, Stryker European Operations on Oct. 21 for "Control systems for shapeable catheters" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,313, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Stryker European Operations Ltd. (Carrigtwohill, Ireland).

"Control systems for shapeable catheters" was invented by Stephen Porter (Piedmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular device includes an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end, and a plurality of energy transmitting conduits extending within the elongated body. The distal ends of the energy transmitting conduits terminate at different axial locations along the distal end of the elongated body. In one embodiment, the number of energy transmission conduits is only tw...