ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,158, issued on June 3, was assigned to Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Microrobotic systems and methods for endovascular interventions" was invented by Amir Jafari (San Antonio), Miltiadis Alamaniotis (San Antonio), Teja Guda (San Antonio) and Dimitrios Miserlis (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide robotic systems, apparatuses, and methods. One such robotic system comprises a robotic surgical tool; and a steering system configured to steer the robotic surgical tool based on motion angle commands along X and Y axes as the robotic surgical tool mov...