US Patent Issued to Covidien on Aug. 12 for "Endoluminal robotic (ELR) systems and methods" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,352, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Covidien LP (Mansfield, Mass.).

"Endoluminal robotic (ELR) systems and methods" was invented by Scott J. Prior (Branford, Conn.), Arvind Rajagopalan Mohan (Dracut, Mass.), John W. Komp (Dillon, Colo.), William J. Peine (Ashland, Mass.), Scott E. M. Frushour (Boulder, Colo.), Chad A. Pickering (Woburn, Mass.), Evgeni Kopel (Barkan, Israel) and Anthony B. Ross (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Endoluminal robotic systems and corresponding methods include subsystems for visualization, navigation, pressure sensing, platform compatibility, and user interfaces. The user interfaces may be...