US Patent Issued to Fortimedix Assets II on Feb. 17 for "Method for manufacturing a steerable instrument and such steerable instrument" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,660, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Fortimedix Assets II B.V. (Geleen, Netherlands).

"Method for manufacturing a steerable instrument and such steerable instrument" was invented by Simon Jozef Arnold Pleijers (Klimmen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steerable instrument for endoscopic and/or invasive type applications includes an elongated tubular body having a proximal end part, a distal end part and an intermediate part between proximal and distal end parts, the proximal end part having at least one actuation proximal zone. The distal end part has at least one flexible distal zone, and the elongated tubular body i...