US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics on Sept. 23 for "Systems, apparatus and methods for robotic interventional procedures using a plurality of elongated medical devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,501, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics Inc. (Newton, Mass.).

"Systems, apparatus and methods for robotic interventional procedures using a plurality of elongated medical devices" was invented by Cameron Canale (Groton, Mass.), Eric Klem (Lexington, Mass.), Omid Saber (Waltham, Mass.), Saeed Sokhanvar (Medfield, Mass.) and Andrew Clark (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic drive system for driving one or more elongated medical devices, the robotic drive can include a linear member and at least four device modules coupled to the linear member. Each device module may be in...