U.S. Patent 7850642 was awarded to Hansen Medical, Inc. on 2010-12-14 and describes a “Methods using a robotic catheter system.” This patent has been cited 283 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative medical technology patents in the field of instruments. The abstract states:

A methods using a robotic catheter system to perform a procedure on a patient includes generating a control signal corresponding to movement of a master input device, and moving a plurality of drive elements of an instrument driver in response to the control signal, the drive elements operatively coupled to a corresponding plurality of control elements of an elongate guide instrument, the control elements secured to a distal end of the guide instrument and moveable axially relative to the guide instrument such that movement of the drive elements causes a corresponding movement of the guide instrument distal end. Link: U.S. Patent 7850642

This patent was originally filed on 2005-07-06 which gives it a processing time of 1987 days, compared to an average processing time of 1881 in the field. Hansen Medical, Inc. has 132 total patents. The first named inventor is David F. Moore of , England. The primary examiner was Long V Le.

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