ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,344, issued on July 29, was assigned to REMEDY ROBOTICS INC. (San Francisco).

"Systems, methods, and devices for advancing an endovascular instrument" was invented by Jake Anthony Sganga (San Francisco), David James Bell (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Hugo Louis Seize (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for moving a catheter over a parked elongate tool through a lumen can include a catheter device, a proximal elongate tool device, and a distal elongate tool device. The catheter device can be engaged with the catheter device. An elongate device can be inserted through the lumen of the catheter and through the proximal el...