US Patent Issued to Microbot Medical, Technion Research & Development Foundation on June 23 for "Device for automatically inserting and manipulating a medical tool into and within a bodily lumen" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,988, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microbot Medical Ltd. (Yokneam Illit, Israel) and Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Device for automatically inserting and manipulating a medical tool into and within a bodily lumen" was invented by Simon Sharon (Zichron Yaacov, Israel), Idan Boader (Carmiel, Israel), Evgeny Kofman (Kiriat-Motzkin, Israel), Moshe Shoham (Hoshaya, Israel), Eran Cohen (Kiryat-Tivon, Israel) and Eyal Morag (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact robotic device for driving movement of two or more elongate surgical tools configured for a telescopic arrangement when ...