Patent ID: 11944267
Assignee: UROVIU CORP.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A disposable, single-use endoscope including a permanently mounted, integrated grasper operated under video control, comprising:
a shaft having a manually operated grasper control movable relative to the shaft, a cannula extending distally from the shaft and having a working channel, and a grasper at a distal portion of the cannula, wherein the distal portion of the cannula has a bend with a concave side;
an imaging module that is at the distal end of the cannula and has a camera axis and a field of view;
wherein:
said grasper is permanently secured to said cannula and to said manually operated grasper control to move relative to the cannula with movement of the grasper control relative to the shaft, between a retracted position at in which the grasper is within the working channel and an extended position at which the grasper protrudes distally from the channel such a distal end of the grasper is distal from said imaging module;
as said grasper moves from its retracted to its expended position, a portion of the grasper that extends distally from the cannula bends toward the imaging module and the camera axis such that the distal end of the grasper is in said field of view;
said distal portion of the grasper comprise a pair of resilient jaw portions that are biased to move away from each other toward and to an open position as the grasper moves distally relative to the cannula toward and to its extended position;
said working channel acts on the grasper to move the resilient jaws toward each other and to a closed position as the grasper moves proximally relative to the cannula toward and to its retracted position.