University of Texas System

Xcath, Inc.

National Institutes of Health, a Component of the US Dept. of Health & Human Services

Bhavik Patel

Daniel H Kim

Daniel Huan Kim

Dong Suk Shin

Viljar Palmre

Younghee Shim

Steven A Rosenberg

Richard A Morgan

Li Liu

Yongman Park

Taeho Jang

Jeihan Lee

Edward A Berger

Hongmin Kim

Barna Dey

Kihoon Nam

Jaeyeon Lee

Mustafa H Ghanem

A catheter comprises a hollow sheath, a guidewire extendable through the hollow sheath, where the guidewire comprises a controllably bendable tip portion, a hollow tubular intermediate portion connected to the tip portion, an electrical connection portion connected to the hollow tubular portion, at least a first wire extending through the hollow tubular portion and connected at a first end thereof to a first circumferential conductor and at a second end thereof to a surface of the tip end, and a power supply connector, therein the electrical connection portion is received in the power supply connector and a first terminal in the power supply connector contacts the first circumferential conductor.

Introduction device including an electroactive tip on a guidewire

Provided herein as a steerable surgical robotic system for positioning a catheter comprising a sheath and a guidewire within a patient body, including a sheath driver configured to advance and retract a sheath having a hollow interior along a sheath advance and retract path extending therein, a guidewire driver configured to advance and retract a guidewire along a guidewire advance and retract path extending therein, wherein each of the sheath advance and retract path and the guidewire advance and retract path extend between pairs of rollers in the respective sheath and roller drivers, and the paths are parallel to each another.

Steerable surgical robotic system

Growing community of inventors

Houston, TX, United States of America

Bhavik Patel