US Patent Issued to ROBOCATH on Sept. 22 for "System for rotationally and translationally driving an elongate flexible medical instrument" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,837, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ROBOCATH (Rouen, France).

"System for rotationally and translationally driving an elongate flexible medical instrument" was invented by Marc Boulange (La Gaillarde, France) and Philippe Bencteux (Saint Martin du Vivier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system for driving an elongate and flexible medical instrument along a main elongation axis, the drive system including a first roller and a second roller intended to cooperate in order to drive the medical instrument translationally along its main elongation axis and to drive the medical instrument rotationally about its main elon...