Abstract
According to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx journalists, a patent by the inventors Del Giudice, Giuseppe (Nashville, TN, US), Joos, Karen M. (Nashville, TN, US), Shen, Jin-Hui (Nashville, TN, US), Simaan, Nabil (Nashville, TN, US), Wang, Long (Nashville, TN, US), filed on February 26, 2021, was published online on February 13, 2024. The assignee for this patent, patent number 11897129, is Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee, United States). Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The present invention relates to systems and methods for controlling the movement and positioning of a robotic device. In some particular implementations, the present invention relates to systems and methods for controlling the movement and positioning of a bending robotic device such as, for example, a continuum robot.”