Tag Dream Medical Ltd.

Symap Medical (suzhou), Limited

Yaron Tal

Hagay Sitry

Ran Weisman

Zachary Sacks

Hagay Botansky

Yuval Perets

Dan Michael

Dan Nabel

Yehuda Ben Ami

Yossi Gross

Yehuda Zadok

Apparatus comprises: (a) a longitudinal member (), having a distal portion (); (b) a plurality of electrodes () disposed on the distal portion of the longitudinal member, such that a first electrode () of the plurality of electrodes is disposed distally along the longitudinal member from a second electrode () of the plurality of electrodes; and (c) a controller (). The controller comprises an actuator, and circuitry () electrically connected to the electrodes via the longitudinal member. The actuator is configured to move the longitudinal member in discrete incremental movements such that for each incremental movement, (i) before the incremental movement the first electrode is disposed in a starting position, (ii) during each incremental movement the actuator moves second electrode toward the starting position, and (iii) at the end of each incremental movement the second electrode is stationary at the starting position.

Electrode catheter with incremental advancement

A tool has a handle and an elongate shaft that extends distally from the handle. A distal portion of the shaft is inserted into a subject during a surgical procedure. An optical fiber delivers laser energy to a tip at the distal portion of the shaft. The tip includes a mechanical cutting mechanism including a moving part that absorbs the laser energy, thermally conducts the absorbed energy to tissue that is disposed between the moving part and another part, and moves with respect to the other part in order to cut tissue that is disposed between the parts using a mechanical force that is lower than a mechanical force that would be required to cut the tissue in the absence of the laser energy. Other embodiments are also described.

Hybrid laser cutter

Growing community of inventors

Tel Mond, Israel

Yaron Tal