US Patent Issued to Auris Health on Dec. 16 for "Anomaly detection in instruments in a surgical robotic system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,160, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Anomaly detection in instruments in a surgical robotic system" was invented by Sree Shankar Satheesh Babu (Redwood City, Calif.) and Alireza Hariri (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine-learned model is used in the detection of anomalies in operation of the instrument drive chain of a surgical robotic system. For example, normal operation (e.g., cable force) based on operation information (e.g., position and/or load) is predicted by the machine-learned model, which prediction is then compared to actual operation. The comparison ...