US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on May 26 for "Magnetic impact needle robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,109, issued on May 26, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Magnetic impact needle robot" was invented by Yuxuan Xiang (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Jiachen Zhang (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tetherless magnetic impact needle robot (MINRob) based on a triple-magnet system with reversible and repeatable magnetic collisions to overcome this constraint on output force. The working procedure of the system is divided into several states, and a mathematical model is developed to predict and optimize the force output. These force values in magnetic impact and penetration are obtained from a c...