US Patent Issued to Microbot Medical, Technion Research & Development Foundation on June 16 for "Compact robotic device and assemblies for manipulation of elongate surgical tools" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,629, issued on June 16, was assigned to Microbot Medical Ltd. (Yokneam Illit, Israel) and Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Compact robotic device and assemblies for manipulation of elongate surgical tools" was invented by Simon Sharon (Zichron Yaacov, Israel), Idan Boader (Karmiel, Israel), Evgeny Kofman (Kiriat-Motzkin, Israel), Zev Sohn (Karnei Shomron, Israel), Moshe Shoham (Haifa, Israel), Eran Cohen (Kiryat-Tivon, Israel) and Eyal Morag (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for driving movement of an elongate surgical tool, comprising:a plurality of adjacent pairs of drivin...