US Patent Issued to Neptune Medical on March 3 for "Managing and manipulating a long length robotic endoscope" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,312, issued on March 3, was assigned to Neptune Medical Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"Managing and manipulating a long length robotic endoscope" was invented by Alexander Q. Tilson (Burlingame, Calif.) and Stephan T. Hoffmann (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for storing and dispensing elongate, flexible, medical instruments, such as endoscopes, may be configured for rotary storage and dispensing, which provides substantial advantages in space management. In particular, described herein are systems for storing and dispensing a robotic scope that include a rotatable frame to which a robotic scope (...