US Patent Issued to Planned Systems International, National Society of Medical Scientists on Dec. 16 for "Autonomous and semi-autonomous multifunctional medical robots, teams and systems" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,713, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Planned Systems International Inc. (Arlington, Va.) and National Society of Medical Scientists (Bethesda, Md.).

"Autonomous and semi-autonomous multifunctional medical robots, teams and systems" was invented by June Lee (North Bethesda, Md.), Thomas J Berti (Lusby, Md.) and Yan Li (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to autonomous configuration of a multifunction robot for healthcare-related tasks. In one embodiment, a method includes, responsive to receiving, in the multifunction robot, selection data that identifies a tre...