ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,286, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Foreveryoung Technology Corp. and Tonglu Technology Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"Partial reusable robot performing endo-tool manipulation" was invented by Dwight Alan Meglan (Westwood, Mass.), Yunfei Cao (Lincoln, Mass.) and Ann Xin (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein disclosed is a robot apparatus for inserting or removing an endo-tool into or from a clinical subject. The robot apparatus includes a robot moving hand configured to move linearly towards or away from the clinical subject. The moving hand further includes a moving hand actuator being controlled by a surgical opera...