ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,164, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Instrument shaft tensioning" was invented by Jiayi Lin (San Mateo, Calif.), Chauncey F. Graetzel (Palo Alto, Calif.) and John Young (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for evaluating and/or removing slack in an elongate shaft of a medical instrument are discussed herein. For example, an instrument feeder device can be configured to engage with the elongate shaft to facilitate axial motion of the elongate shaft. An amount of slack between the instrument feeder device and an instrument handle of the medical inst...