ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,956, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ADVANCED ECHO TECHNOLOGY (France).
"Robot-assisted tele-echography probe" was invented by Gwenael Charron (Vendome, France) and Eric Lefebvre (Huisseau en Beauce, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot-assisted echographic probe that includes an enclosure, an ultrasonic transducer module having a support housing mounted at a distal end of a guide sleeve in a sealed compartment of the enclosure that is separated from a control compartment of the enclosure by a sealed transversal wall, and means for moving the transducer module which are suitable for directing the transducer module along thr...