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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
N. Parker Willis, Atherton, CA (US);
Zachary J. Malchano, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris A. Rothe, San Mateo, CA (US);
Vahid Saadat, Atherton, CA (US);
Ruey-Feng Peh, Singapore, SG;
David Miller, Boulder, CO (US);
Edmund A. Tam, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/12 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/012 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/1492 (2013.01); A61B 1/00089 (2013.01); A61B 1/012 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00106 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00214 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00642 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00809 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00839 (2013.01); A61B 2018/1472 (2013.01); A61B 2218/002 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of ablating a tissue region within a blood-filled environment comprises restraining a fluid within a visualization field in a portion of the blood-filled environment and visualizing the tissue region through the fluid within the visualization field. The method also includes transmitting ablating electrical energy from the fluid into the visualized tissue region.