ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,289, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Brainlab AG (Munich).

"Robotic manipulation of medical carrier structures" was invented by Sebastian Stopp (Munich) and Nils Frielinghaus (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system and a computer-implemented medical method for manipulating at least one first, non-motorized medical carrier structure via a second, motorised medical carrier structure, wherein the second, motorized medical carrier structure is adapted to engage the first, non-motorized carrier structure to subsequently move a predefined section of the non-motorized carrier structure to a desir...