US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES, ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE on Oct. 20 for "Flexible surgical device with controllable stiffness" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,914, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to UNIVERSITE DE STRASBOURG (Strasbourg, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris), INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES (Strasbourg, France) and ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Flexible surgical device with controllable stiffness" was invented by Lennart Rubbert (Strasbourg, France) and Charles Baur (Saint-Aubin-Sauges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical device, including a tubular outer shaft and an inner element having an elongated shape, the outer shaft comprising a distal and a proximal outer hinges, the inner elem...