US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 14 for "Flexible instruments with patterned antenna assemblies having variable recoverable flexibility" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,224, issued on July 14, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Flexible instruments with patterned antenna assemblies having variable recoverable flexibility" was invented by Serena H. Wong (Los Altos, Calif.) and Samuel Raybin (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flexible instruments and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a flexible instrument comprises an elongate device having an inner conductor, an outer conductor surrounding the inner conductor, and a dielectric layer insulating the inner conductor from the outer conductor. The flexible instr...