ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,042, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Endoscopic device with helical lumen design" was invented by Enrique Romo (Dublin, Calif.), Jeffery B. Alvarez (Redwood City, Calif.), Gregory J. Kintz (Santa Cruz, Calif.), David S. Mintz (Mountain View, Calif.), Jian Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Steve Burion (San Francisco), Serena Wong (Mountain View, Calif.), Joseph Daniel Bogusky (San Jose, Calif.), Katherine A. Bender (Saunderstown, R.I.) and Alan Yu (Union City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endolumenal robotic system provides the surgeon with the ability to drive a robotically-driven end...