Video stylet with directable tip

• US 8,652,033 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2010
• Issued: 02/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Karl Storz Endovision, Inc. (Karl Storz Se & Co. Kg), Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (University of Texas System)
• Original Assignee: Karl Storz Endovision, Inc. (Karl Storz Se & Co. Kg)
• Inventors: Berci, George, Barry, James P.
• Primary Examiner(s): MERENE, JAN CHRISTOP L
• Application Number:
  US12/889,095
• Publication Number:
  US 20120078055A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,244 Days
• Field of Search: 600/120, 600185-200, 600/112, 128/200.26, 348/77
• US Class Current: 600/199
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0005 combining images e.g. side-by-side, superimposed or tiled
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00052 positioned at proximal end of the endoscope body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00082 Balloons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/0051 with controlled bending of insertion part
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/042 characterised by a proximal camera, e.g. a CCD camera
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/044 for absorption imaging
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/06 with illuminating arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/267 for the respiratory tract, e.g. laryngoscopes, bronchoscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/2676 Bronchoscopes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0488 Mouthpieces; Means for guiding, securing or introducing the tubes guiding or introducing with laryngoscopes A61B1/267; holding devices on the body A61M25/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/587 Lighting arrangements

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