ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,883, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Endolumenal object sizing" was invented by David S. Mintz (Mountain View, Calif.), David M. Schummers (Oakland, Calif.), Prasanth Jeevan (San Mateo, Calif.), Hedyeh Rafii-Tari (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ritwik Ummalaneni (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object sizing system sizes an object positioned within an anatomical feature. The object sizing system navigates an elongate body to a location within an anatomical feature and proximate to the object. An imaging sensor coupled to the elongate body captures images of the object. The ...