Steerable fiber optic shape sensing enabled elongated medical instrument

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United States of America

PATENT NO 12220219
APP PUB NO 20220160209A1
SERIAL NO

17535406

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Disclosed herein is a system, apparatus and method directed to placing a medical instrument in a vasculature of a patient body, where the medical instrument includes an optical fiber having one or more core fibers. The system also includes a console having non-transitory computer-readable medium storing logic that, when executed, causes operations of providing an incident light signal to the optical fiber, receiving a reflected light signal of the incident light, processing the reflected light signals associated with the optical fiber and determining a location of a distal tip of the medical instrument within the patient body. The medical instrument may be steerable in one of various methods including having a predetermined curvature, a distal tip that is magnetic, magnetized, metallic or ferrous and is steerable by an external magnetic device or a having a variable stiffness at a distal tip.

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  • BARD ACCESS SYSTEMS INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Decheek, Anthony D Salt Lake City, US 3 27
McLaughlin, William Robert Bountiful, US 105 520
Misener, Anthony K Bountiful, US 149 2898
Sowards, Steffan Salt Lake City, US 119 574

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