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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 12207885 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2018

Tubular body structure imaging and locating system

Applicant:

Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ian E. McDowall, Woodside, CA (US);

Marc Levesque, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Theodore W. Rogers, Alameda, CA (US);

Assignee:

INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:

Haynes & Boone, LLP.

Primary Examiner:

Serkan Akar

Assistant Examiner:

Aminah Asghar

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/05 (2021.01); A61B 5/0507 (2021.01); A61B 5/06 (2006.01); A61B 5/20 (2006.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 34/37 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/20 (2016.02); A61B 1/00006 (2013.01); A61B 1/000094 (2022.02); A61B 1/00149 (2013.01); A61B 1/0016 (2013.01); A61B 1/00194 (2022.02); A61B 5/05 (2013.01); A61B 5/0507 (2013.01); A61B 5/061 (2013.01); A61B 5/20 (2013.01); A61B 5/6852 (2013.01); A61B 34/37 (2016.02); A61B 90/37 (2016.02); A61B 90/39 (2016.02); A61B 1/00193 (2013.01); A61B 5/6847 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2046 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2059 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2063 (2016.02); A61B 2034/301 (2016.02);
Abstract

A system for identifying a location of a lumen of a tubular body structure in a patient's body includes a flexible, longitudinally extending probe configured to be inserted through the lumen in the tubular body structure in the patient. A detection system may include an antenna arranged to receive signals from a longitudinally extending detectable portion of the probe. A processing system may process the received signals and identify a longitudinally extending position of the longitudinally extending detectable portion of the probe in a three dimensional reference frame.

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