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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2017
St. Jude Medical International Holding S.à R.l., Luxembourg, LU;
Yu Liu, Irvine, CA (US);
John W. Sliwa, San Jose, CA (US);
Jiayin Liu, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Giovanni Leo, Cologny, CH;
Troy T. Tegg, Elk River, MN (US);
St. Jude Medical International Holding S.À R.L., Luxembourg, LU;
Abstract
A medical device, system, and method having a flexible shaft and a multi-core fiber within the flexible shaft. The multi-core fiber includes a plurality of optical cores dedicated for shape sensing sensors, and a plurality of optical cores dedicated for force sensing sensors. A medical device flexing structure assembly can comprise a multi-core fiber comprising a plurality of cores, and a flexing structure comprising at least one slot. Each of the plurality of cores can comprise a fiber Bragg grating, and the flexing structure can be configured to bend in response to a force imparted on the flexing structure.