ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,646, issued on May 13, was assigned to Autonomix Medical Inc. (Ivyland, Pa.).
"Smart torquer and methods of using the same" was invented by Landy Toth (Ivyland, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Smart torquers are provided. Aspects of the smart torquers include: an engager for releasably engaging an elongated intravascular device; a communications module; a contact associated with the engager and configured to communicatively contact an elongated intravascular device engaged by the engager with the communications module; and a manipulator configured to allow a user to torque an elongated intravascular device engaged by the engager. ...