US Patent Issued to VIZAAR INDUSTRIAL IMAGING on Dec. 30 for "Actuator for an endoscopic probe, endoscopic probe and method for controlling an actuator of an endoscopic probe" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,874, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VIZAAR INDUSTRIAL IMAGING AG (Albstadt, Germany).

"Actuator for an endoscopic probe, endoscopic probe and method for controlling an actuator of an endoscopic probe" was invented by Bjoern Simon Zaar (Albstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an actuator for an endoscopic probe, an endoscopic probe and a method for controlling an actuator of an endoscopic probe. The actuator is provided with an elongate shape memory wire (2) consisting of a shape memory alloy, with an electrical conductor (5) which is electrically conductively connected to the shape memory wire (2...