US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics on June 3 for "Robotic actuation of elongated medical devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,161, issued on June 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics Inc. (Newton, Mass.).

"Robotic actuation of elongated medical devices" was invented by Steven J. Blacker (Framingham, Mass.) and Per Bergman (West Roxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an EMD and coupled to a robotic drive. The EMD includes an external member defining a lumen and an internal member disposed in the lumen and coupled to a distal portion of the external member, and a linearly and rotationally-actuatable element coupled to the external member. The robotic drive includes a plurality of device modules, each of the pl...