US Patent Issued to XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Rigid-flexible coupled continuum robot unit and continuum robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,112, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY (Xi'an, China).

"Rigid-flexible coupled continuum robot unit and continuum robot" was invented by Laihao Yang (Shaanxi, China), Yinchong Peng (Shaanxi, China), Yu Sun (Shaanxi, China) and Xuefeng Chen (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a rigid-flexible coupled continuum robot unit and a continuum robot. In the rigid-flexible coupled continuum robot unit, structural unit blocks are staggered and interconnected to constitute an entire manipulator; two ends of a flexible nickel-titanium rod are respectively connected with two adjacent structural uni...