ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,657, issued on May 20, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics Inc. (Newton, Mass.).
"Robotic percutaneous device wiper" was invented by Steven J. Blacker (Framingham, Mass.), Christopher Zirps (Sharon, Mass.) and Peter Falb (Hingham, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic catheter system including a first drive mechanism configured to interact with an elongated medical device to cause the elongated medical device to move along its longitudinal axis. A controller provides a signal to a motor to move the first wiping surface toward the longitudinal axis when the elongated device is being withdrawn from a pat...