ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,276, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics Inc. (Newton, Mass.).
"Holder facility for holding a medical instrument" was invented by Rodolfo Finocchi (Boston), Ankur Kapoor (Plainsboro, N.J.), Erin Girard (Madison, Conn.), Young-Ho Kim (West Windsor, N.J.) and Tommaso Mansi (Plainsboro, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holder facility for holding a medical instrument includes a first receiving element, a second receiving element, and at least three diaphragm elements. The at least three diaphragm elements within a diaphragm layer are arranged between the first and second receiving elements ...