US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, Endoquest Robotics on June 17 for "End effector and end effector drive apparatus" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,403, issued on June 17, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) and Endoquest Robotics Inc. (Houston).

"End effector and end effector drive apparatus" was invented by Daniel H. Kim (Houston), Dong Suk Shin (Houston), Taeho Jang (Houston), Yongman Park (Houston), Jeihan Lee (Houston), Hongmin Kim (Houston), Kihoon Nam (Gwangmyeong, South Korea) and Seokyung Han (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a mechanism to controllably move a wire within a flexible tubular member, the wire including opposed wire ends extending outwardly of a proximal end of the flexible tubular mem...