US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Science and Technology on July 7 for "Electromagnetic shape sensor integrated with wire-driven robot" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,792, issued on July 7, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electromagnetic shape sensor integrated with wire-driven robot" was invented by Jiyun Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Chunwoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electromagnetic shape sensor integrated with a wire-driven robot. The electromagnetic shape sensor for sensing a shape of the wire-driven robot according to the embodiment includes an excitation coil configured to surround at least a part of an outer peripheral surface of the tube, and a plurality of sensing coils configured to each surround ...