US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Jan. 20 for "Optic light guide, endoscope, method for producing and using an optic light guide" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,466, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Optic light guide, endoscope, method for producing and using an optic light guide" was invented by Hannes Joseph (Bahlingen, Germany), Philip Stengel (Emmendingen, Germany), Ralf Kleiser (Freiburg, Germany), Bjorn Kuhwe (Freiburg, Germany) and Sebastian Petsch (Denzlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optic light guide includes a plurality of light-guiding single fibres which are combined into a bundle and at least one sheath which encloses at least one section of an outer circumference of the bundle, the at least one sheath ...