ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,419, issued on April 15, was assigned to KOREA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL MICROROBOTICS (Gwangju, South Korea).
"Micro-robot control apparatus" was invented by Jongoh Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Chang-Sei Kim (Gwangju, South Korea), Eunpyo Choi (Gwangju, South Korea), Jayoung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Byungjeon Kang (Gwangju, South Korea), Manh Cuong Hoang (Gwangju, South Korea) and Ayoung Hong (Daegu, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a micro-robot control apparatus. An electromagnetic module for focusing magnetic field and a micro-robot control apparatus comprising the electromagnetic modul...