US Patent Issued to Veebot Systems on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for autonomous intravenous needle insertion" (Florida, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,555, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Veebot Systems Inc. (Miami).

"Systems and methods for autonomous intravenous needle insertion" was invented by Richard J. Harris (Coconut Grove, Fla.), Joseph B. Mygatt (Ridgefield, Conn.) and Stuart I. Harris (Coconut Grove, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for autonomous intravenous needle insertion are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system for autonomous intravenous insertion include a robot arm, one or more sensors pivotally attached to the robot arm for gathering information about potential insertion sites in a subject arm, a medical device pivotally attache...