Selectively positionable camera for surgical guide tube assembly

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8496574
APP PUB NO 20110152612A1
SERIAL NO

12640476

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A selectively positionable camera assembly for use in connection with a guide tube assembly that has a guide tube handle portion and at least one guide tube protruding therefrom. In various embodiments, the camera includes an elongated flexible camera portion that is sized to operably extend through at least one of the guide tubes of the guide tube assembly. A camera handle is operably coupled to the elongated flexible camera portion such that the handle is movably supported by at least a portion of the guide tube handle portion. At least one retainer is provided on the guide tube handle and/or the camera handle for releasably retaining the camera handle in any one of a plurality of orientations relative to the portion of the guide tube handle.

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Patent Owner(s)

  • ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY, INC.;KARL STORZ ENDOVISION, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bakos, Gregory J Mason, US 391 107459
Birnkrant, Dashiell A Worcester, US 7 469
Elliott,, Jr John J Ashburnham, US 4 140
Spivey, James T Cincinnati, US 92 29217
Trusty, Robert M Cincinnati, US 48 2358
Vakharia, Omar J Cincinnati, US 106 22085

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