US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on June 3 for "Steerable and flexible robotic endoscopic tools for minimally invasive procedures" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,067, issued on June 3, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Steerable and flexible robotic endoscopic tools for minimally invasive procedures" was invented by Jaydev P. Desai (Atlanta), Yash Chetan Chitalia (Atlanta), Seokhwan Jeong (Atlanta) and Joshua J. Chern (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe part (100) includes abase member (110) defining a first bore (112). A first elongated elastic member (120) includes a near end (126) secured to the base member (110) and extends therefrom to a far end (128) and defines a channel (125) in communication with the first bore (112) and that runs lengthwise with the ...