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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.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2021
Applicant:
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Stryker Corporation, Portage, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00188 (2013.01); A61B 1/00117 (2013.01); A61B 1/00121 (2013.01); A61B 1/00197 (2013.01); A61B 17/3478 (2013.01); A61B 17/3496 (2013.01);
Abstract
An endoscope includes a connection portion for connecting the endoscope to a camera head; a needle assembly; a sleeve that is fixed relative to the needle assembly; a focusing optic assembly housed within the sleeve and comprising at least one optical component, the focusing optic assembly being translatable relative to the sleeve for adjusting a focus of the endoscope; and a user-engageable rotator operably coupled to the needle assembly and the sleeve to rotate the needle assembly and sleeve relative to the connection portion to adjust a view direction of the needle assembly.