ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,443, issued on June 30, was assigned to UAB Inovatyvi Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania).

"Endovascular robotic system and method of use thereof" was invented by Tomas Baltrunas (Kaunas, Lithuania), Evaldas Kalvaitis (Kaunas, Lithuania), Edvardas Satkauskas (Kaunas, Lithuania), Vilius Dambrauskas (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Vaidas Labunskas (Kaunas, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We describe an endovascular robotic system, comprising: a first endovascular robotic instrument located at a first location, and a second endovascular robotic instrument located at a second location. The first endovascular robotic instrument is communicative...