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6936042 Surgical tools for use in minimally invasive telesurgical applications  
This invention provides surgical tools or instruments for use in minimally invasive telesurgical applications. The instruments typically include a base whereby the instrument is removably mountable...
6934573 System and method for changing transmission from an in vivo sensing device  
A device, system and method enables obtaining data such as in vivo images from within body lumens or cavities, such as images of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. A device may include an imaging...
6928490 Networking infrastructure for an operating room  
A networking infrastructure for an operating room, comprising a plurality of medical devices, each device of which is connected through a single communication channel to the network, wherein each...
6926709 Fully automatic, robot-assisted camera guidance system employing position sensors for laparoscopic interventions  
In a method and operating system for conducting a surgical intervention, respective position sensors are mounted at a laparoscope and a surgical instrument used to conduct the intervention, and a...
6923801 Ablation device placement spacer  
An ablation device placement spacer for use with a patient undergoing a targeted ablation procedure utilizing elongated ablation devices insertable into treatment zones of the patient. The ablation...
6918908 Methods and apparatus for accessing and stabilizing an area of the heart  
A tubular suction tool for accessing an anatomic surface or anatomic space and particularly the pericardium to access pericardial space and the epicardial surface of the heart to implant cardiac...
6916314 Medical instrument with removable tool  
A medical instrument has a shaft and a tool which is mounted on a distal end of the shaft in such a way as to be removable therefrom. The shaft has an inner shaft and a tubular shaft which...
6905491 Apparatus for performing minimally invasive cardiac procedures with a robotic arm that has a passive joint and system which can decouple the robotic arm from the input device  
A system for performing minimally invasive cardiac procedures. The system includes a pair of surgical instruments that are coupled to a pair of robotic arms. The instruments have end effectors that...
6902560 Roll-pitch-roll surgical tool  
A method of performing minimally invasive endoscopic surgery in a body cavity of a patient includes introducing an elongate shaft having a working end into the cavity. The elongate shaft has a...
6899705 Friction compensation in a minimally invasive surgical apparatus  
Devices, systems, and methods for compensate for friction within powered automatic systems, particularly for telesurgery and other telepresence applications. Dynamic friction compensation may...
6899704 Devices and methods for intracardiac procedures  
The invention provides devices and methods for performing less-invasive surgical procedures within an organ or vessel. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention provides a method of closed-chest...
6892112 Modularity system for computer assisted surgery  
A medical system that allows a medical device to be controlled by one of two input devices. The input devices may be consoles that contain handles and a screen. The medical devices may include...
6890330 Intracardiovascular access (ICVATM) system  
Apparatus is disclosed for providing access to a functioning vascular system of a patient, the apparatus comprising: a main body having sidewalls defining an interior region and an exterior region,...
6889116 Manipulator  
A manipulator comprises an operation command unit provided with an attitude adjusting unit and an end effector control unit, a connecting unit having one end connected to the operation command...
6884240 Protection system for surgical instruments  
A protection system for surgical instruments having a body with an instrument at one end. A movable guard is provided that moves between locked open and locked closed positions. The guard includes...
6871117 Modularity system for computer assisted surgery  
A medical system that allows a medical device to be controlled by one of two input devices. The input devices may be consoles that contain handles and a screen. The medical devices may include...
6869427 LED fixation device for topical anesthesia eye surgery  
An LED fixation device that is secured to a patient's face and covers the patient's fellow eye during eye surgery to provide a lighted fixation target. The fixation device includes an eye shield, a...
6866671 Surgical robotic tools, data architecture, and use  
Robotic surgical tools, systems, and methods for preparing for and performing robotic surgery include a memory mounted on the tool. The memory can perform a number of functions when the tool is...
6861954 Tracking medical products with integrated circuits  
A system and method of tracking medical products provides for associating a group of medical products with a group location based on a group radio frequency identification (RF ID) device signal,...
6860878 Interchangeable instrument  
A system and associated method for delivering to an internal body site a selected one of a plurality of instruments including fluid-dispensing instruments. An instrument storage chamber is...
6860877 Heart stabilizer support arm  
A support arm for a heart stabilizer that can be used to stabilize a heart during a beating heart coronary artery bypass graft procedure. The support arm may have an arm that is coupled to a table...
6858003 Performing cardiac surgery without cardioplegia  
A surgical system or assembly for performing cardiac surgery includes a surgical instrument; a servo-mechanical system engaged to the surgical instrument for operating the surgical instrument; and...
6852107 Minimally invasive surgical training using robotics and tele-collaboration  
A medical system that allows a mentor to teach a pupil how to use a robotically controlled medical instrument. The system may include a first handle that can be controlled by a mentor to move the...
6850817 Surgical system  
A teleoperator system with telepresence is shown which includes right and left hand controllers ( 72 R and 72 L) for control of right and left manipulators ( 24 R and 24 L) through use of a...
6849081 Implant delivery assembly with expandable coupling/decoupling mechanism  
An occlusive implant delivery assembly includes a rapid response decoupling or detachment mechanism that does not effect significant migration of the implant during release. The assembly includes...
6849071 Electro-mechanical surgical device  
An electro-mechanical surgical device includes: a housing; an elongated shaft extending from the housing, a distal end of the elongated shaft being detachably coupleable to a surgical instrument;...
6846309 Electro-mechanical surgical device  
An electro-mechanical surgical device includes: a housing; an elongated shaft extending from the housing, a distal end of the elongated shaft being detachably coupleable to a surgical instrument;...
6846308 Electro-mechanical surgical device  
An electro-mechanical surgical device includes: a housing; an elongated shaft extending from the housing, a distal end of the elongated shaft being detachably coupleable to a surgical instrument;...
6846307 Electro-mechanical surgical device  
An electro-mechanical surgical device includes: a housing; an elongated shaft extending from the housing, a distal end of the elongated shaft being detachably coupleable to a surgical instrument;...
6845297 Method and system for remote control of mobile robot  
A system for tele-operating a robot in an environment includes a user interface for controlling the tele-operation of the robot, an imaging device associated with the robot for providing image...
6840951 Laparoscopic access port for surgical instruments or the hand  
A flexible, fluid-tight envelope provides access for a hand and surgical instruments through a body tissue incision while maintaining insufflation pressure or a pneumoperitoneum within the body....
6840932 Medical instrument  
The invention relates to a medical instrument with an elongated shaft ( 1 ) and with a handle part ( 2 ) that is linked with the proximal end of the shaft ( 1 ) and that is used to actuate a tool (...
6839612 Microwrist system for surgical procedures  
A medical robotic system with a handle assembly that is used to control a medical instrument. The handle assembly and medical instrument have five degrees of freedom. Five degrees of freedom may...
6837883 Arm cart for telerobotic surgical system  
Improved robotic surgical systems, devices, and methods often include a first assembly with a surgical end effector supported and manipulated relative to a first base by a first robotic linkage,...
6836703 Modularity system for computer assisted surgery  
A medical system that allows a medical device to be controlled by one of two input devices. The input devices may be consoles that contain handles and a screen. The medical devices may include...
6835180 System and method for biopsy management  
A medical specimen carrier, and a method for using the same, is provided wherein the specimen carrier includes a housing having a plurality of compartments therein each capable of holding a tissue...
6827713 Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling use of medical devices  
A device for treating a tissue region is supplied with a separate usage key card. The usage key card comprises a storage medium, which is formatted to contain an identification code unique to the...
6827712 Robotic arm DLUs for performing surgical tasks  
Disposable loading units (DLUs) configured for mounting to a robotic arm for performing at least one surgical task are presented. Each DLU includes an attachment platform having at least one...
6824539 Touchscreen controlling medical equipment from multiple manufacturers  
A communication system including a bus, interconnecting first and third party surgical devices, and a touchscreen, operated with the bus and displaying replicas control interfaces of the first and...
6821282 Full thickness resection device control handle  
A control mechanism for a resectioning device, comprises a first actuator coupled to a flexible drive shaft for actuating a first mechanism when operated in a first direction and for actuating,...
6816754 Method and system for controlling drive of a robot  
A method and system for controlling drive of a robot having two or more drive axes and driven in accordance with an action program transmitted from a system controller to a robot controller by a...
6814728 Endoscope having an operation wire  
A tubular treatment tool for an endoscope includes a flexible tubular member. A groove traversing the flexible tubular member in a direction of a diameter thereof is formed on the flexible tubular...
6799088 Modularity system for computer assisted surgery  
A medical system that allows a medical device to be controlled by one of two input devices. The input devices may be consoles that contain handles and a screen. The medical devices may include...
6796977 Variable graft tensioner  
A graft preparation board that enables an exact tensioning of soft tissue grafts. The graft preparation board allows the amount of tensile load to be easily determined so that the operator can...
6793653 Multifunctional handle for a medical robotic system  
A handle used to control movement of a medical instrument. The medical instrument may be coupled to a robotic arm that is connected to a controller. The medical instrument may have a plurality of...
6793652 Electro-mechanical surgical device  
An electro-mechanical surgical device includes: a housing; an elongated shaft extending from the housing, a distal end of the elongated shaft being detachably coupleable to a surgical instrument;...
6786898 Methods and tools for accessing an anatomic space  
A tubular access sleeve and suction tool for accessing an anatomic surface or anatomic space and particularly the pericardium to access pericardial space and the epicardial surface of the heart in...
6786897 Temperature indicator and insulator for powered surgical instruments  
A temperature sensing device for attachment to a powered surgical instrument operating a workpiece such as a bur. The device is a thermochromic element which may be embodied as a paint or a thermal...
6786896 Robotic apparatus  
A robotic apparatus has eight actuators (M 0 -M 7 ) and a linkage (LINK 0 -LINK 5 ) that actuates an end effector. Three serial macro freedoms have large ranges of motion and inertias. Four...
6785593 Modularity system for computer assisted surgery  
A medical system that allows a medical device to be controlled by one of two input devices. The input devices may be consoles that contain handles and a screen. The medical devices may include...
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