US Patent Issued to XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY on July 29 for "Bearing-type twin-pivot continuum robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,671, issued on July 29, was assigned to XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY (Xi'an, China).

"Bearing-type twin-pivot continuum robot" was invented by Laihao Yang (Shaanxi, China), Zheshuai Yang (Shaanxi, China), Yu Sun (Shaanxi, China) and Xuefeng Chen (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a bearing-type twin-pivot continuum robot, including: an actuating device, used for driving a continuum manipulator through a driving cable such that the continuum manipulator performs a bending motion; a continuum manipulator, connected with the actuating device through the driving cable, the continuum manipulator c...