US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics on March 4 for "Remote communications and control system for robotic interventional procedures" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,400, issued on March 4, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics Inc. (Newton, Mass.).

"Remote communications and control system for robotic interventional procedures" was invented by Nicholas Kottenstette (Sterling, Mass.), Yao Li (Belmont, Mass.) and Per Bergman (West Roxbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using a control center at a remote site to control operation of a robotic medical device system at a local site includes transmitting a control signal from the control center to the robotic medical device system, determining a delay in transmission of the control signal, comparing the delay t...