ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,461, issued on April 8, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Hand-manipulated input device for robotic system" was invented by Joseph L. Diamond (San Carlos, Calif.), Qingbin Zheng (Santa Clara, Calif.), Adam Richard Heard (San Jose, Calif.), Nathan B. J. Moore (Seabrook, Texas), Cory B. McBride (Redwood City, Calif.) and Colin Allen Wilson (Burlingame, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for an input device for controlling a robotic surgical tool. The input device can include a first pair of opposing links and a second pair of opposing links. The first pair of ...