Patent ID: 8465471

Claim:
An endoscopically-guided intra-abdominal fat aspiration system for performing fat aspiration operations typically in an operating room environment, on a patient having an abdominal region, said endoscopically-guided intra-abdominal fat aspiration system comprising: an endoscopy subsystem having (i) a video probe provided with an embedded 2D high-resolution digital color image sensor with a field of view (FOV) for insertion into the abdominal region of the patient during a fat aspiration operation, (ii) one or more video monitors for displaying to surgeons and assistants, real-time digital color video images of said abdominal region captured along the FOV of said video probe, and (iii) digital recording equipment for recording captured digital video images of said abdominal region during said fat aspiration operation; and a twin-cannula powered visceral fat aspiration subsystem having a powered hand-supportable fat aspiration instrument having a housing and provided with a bipolar electro-cauterizing twin-cannula assembly including (i) an outer cannula mounted stationary with respect to said housing and having one or more outer aspiration apertures, and (ii) an inner cannula slidably disposed within said outer cannula and having at least one inner aspiration aperture that moves relative to said one or more outer aspiration apertures during operation of said twin-cannula powered visceral fat aspiration subsystem.