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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:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
May. 14, 2012
Applicants:
Guang-zhong Yang, Surrey, GB;
George Mylonas, London, GB;
Christopher Payne, London, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Imperial Innovations Limited, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 19/02 (2006.01); A61B 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 19/2203 (2013.01); A61B 2034/2048 (2016.02);
Abstract
Apparatus for Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS) comprising a master device, a slave device, a detector for detecting a parameter of, or associated with the slave device, and a shape locking system for locking the shape of the master device in response to a parameter detected by the detector.