US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Oct. 7 for "Fully steerable flexible curved-drilling robot device, system and method" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,608, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Fully steerable flexible curved-drilling robot device, system and method" was invented by Farshid Alambeigi (Austin, Texas) and Yang Liu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fully steerable flexible curved drilling robot device comprises a first flexible tube including a concentric through hole centered on a longitudinal axis, a second flexible tube including an eccentric through hole, wherein the second flexible tube is positioned in the concentric though hole of the first flexible tube, and configured to move translat...