US Patent Issued to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) on Nov. 25 for "Catheter system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,402, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Catheter system" was invented by Gun Hee Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Jongyul Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Won Seo Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jimin Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a catheter system. The catheter system includes: a catheter module including a catheter and a first fastening magnet coupled to a tip of the catheter; and a magnetic robot including a second fastening magnet magnetically coupled to the first fastening magnet, and coupled to and released...