U.S. Patent 7842028 was awarded to Cambridge Endoscopic Devices, Inc. on 2010-11-30 and describes a “Surgical instrument guide device.” This patent has been cited 269 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:

An instrument guide device comprises an elongated guide shaft having proximal and distal ends and including an instrument lumen for receiving therethrough a manually operated instrument having an instrument shaft. A distal bendable member is disposed at the distal end of the guide shaft and a proximal bendable member is disposed at the proximal end of the guide shaft. Actuation means extends between the distal and proximal bendable members and provides a bending of the distal bendable member controlled from the proximal bendable member. The proximal bendable member is controlled from the manually operated instrument to cause a corresponding bending of said distal bendable member. Link: U.S. Patent 7842028

This patent was originally filed on 2005-10-03 which gives it a processing time of 1884 days, compared to an average processing time of 1942 in the field. Cambridge Endoscopic Devices, Inc. has 18 total patents. The first named inventor is Woojin Lee of Hopkinton, MA. The primary examiner was Henry M Johnson, III.

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