US Patent Issued to XACT ROBOTICS on April 1 for "Systems and methods for guiding the insertion of a medical tool" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,955, issued on April 1, was assigned to XACT ROBOTICS LTD. (Caesarea, Israel).

"Systems and methods for guiding the insertion of a medical tool" was invented by Moran Shochat (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Ofer Arnold (Ma'ale Tzvia, Israel) and Shraga Nahum Goldberg (Efrat, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling the insertion of a medical tool, such as a needle, into a subject's body based on measurements of an interaction parameter associated with the interaction between the tool and a bodily tissue, such as the forces exerted on the tool during insertion. The system comprises an insertion device, at le...