US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics on May 26 for "Load sensing of elongated medical device in robotic actuation" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,100, issued on May 26, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers Endovascular Robotics Inc. (Newton, Mass.).

"Load sensing of elongated medical device in robotic actuation" was invented by Omid Saber (Waltham, Mass.), Andrew Clark (Waltham, Mass.), Cameron Canale (Groton, Mass.), Saeed Sokhanvar (Belmont, Mass.) and Eric Klem (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a drive module having a drive module base component and a load-sensed component. An elongated medical device (EMD) is removably coupled to an isolated component. The isolated component is isolated from an external load other than an actual load act...