US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital on June 23 for "Robotic artificial intelligence nasal/oral/rectal enteric tube" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,067, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Robotic artificial intelligence nasal/oral/rectal enteric tube" was invented by William B. Gormley (Boston) and Brittany Stopa (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method by which a catheter tube may be automatically driven to a target location within the body of a subject, such as an enteral cavity or respiratory tract of the subject. The catheter tube may include an imaging device, a transceiver, a spectrometer, and a battery embedded in a tube wall at a distal end of the catheter tube. The imaging device may capture image data o...