US Patent Issued to Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology on March 11 for "Guidewire steering micro-robot" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,144, issued on March 11, was assigned to Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea).

"Guidewire steering micro-robot" was invented by Hong Soo Choi (Daegu, South Korea), Jun Sun Hwang (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jin Young Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Beom Joo Kim (Daegu, South Korea), Hyunki Lee (Daegu, South Korea), Sung Jun Lim (Daegu, South Korea) and Hwajun Jeong (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a guidewire steering micro-robot. The guidewire steering micro-robot includes a guidewire, and a steering unit provided at an end portion of the guidewire, the steering unit including ...