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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2020
Applicant:
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vincent Duindam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Giuseppe Maria Prisco, Calci Pisa, IT;
Assignee:
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 25/01 (2006.01); A61B 18/24 (2006.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 25/0133 (2013.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.02); A61B 18/24 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2061 (2016.02); A61B 2034/301 (2016.02); A61M 25/0113 (2013.01); A61M 25/0147 (2013.01); A61M 25/0158 (2013.01); A61M 2025/0166 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medical system including a catheter, a sheath, and a control system. The catheter includes a lumen, a distal steerable segment, and a distal tip. The sheath is disposed within the lumen of the catheter and the sheath is extendable from the distal tip of the catheter. The control system is coupled to the catheter and includes a memory operable to store desired position coordinates and a plurality of modes including a stiffening mode in which the control system actively maintains the distal tip at the desired position coordinates.