US Patent Issued to NuVera Medical on March 3 for "Medical tool positioning devices, systems, and methods of use and manufacture" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,703, issued on March 3, was assigned to NuVera Medical Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Medical tool positioning devices, systems, and methods of use and manufacture" was invented by Colin Mixter (Los Gatos, Calif.), Marc Bitoun (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Tom Saul (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intravascular catheters that include a handle assembly with first and second handle actuators, where the actuators are adapted to separately control inner and outer catheter shafts in at least one of axial displacement, deflection, or rotation. The catheters may also include a medical tool secured to the outer shaft."

The patent was fi...