ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,294, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics Inc. (Newton, Mass.).

"Medical device systems, methods and computer-readable mediums for operating the same" was invented by Nicholas Kottenstette (Sterling, Mass.), Per Bergman (West Roxbury, Mass.) and Yao Li (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic medical device system includes a robotic medical device and a controller. The controller is configured to control, in response to one or more control signals, movement of the robotic medical device to maintain a substantially constant overshoot for different step responses of the robotic m...