US Patent Issued to ROBOCATH on June 30 for "Robotized module for guiding an elongate flexible medical device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,433, issued on June 30, was assigned to ROBOCATH (Rouen, France).

"Robotized module for guiding an elongate flexible medical device" was invented by Sebastien Deboeuf (Sotteville-les-Rouen, France), Bruno Fournier (Saint Ouen, France), Jacques Marignier (Le Mesnil Esnard, France), Ines Ouali (Marseilles, France), Philippe Bencteux (Saint Martin du Vivier, France) and Fabien Destrebecq (Bourgtheroulde, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The robotized module for actuating an elongated flexible medical device comprises a pair of actuation members that are either in an actuation configuration or in a free configuration. The pair of ac...