ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,189, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for aligning an elongate member with an access site" was invented by Alan Lau Yu (Union City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods align an elongate member with an access site. An alignment system for controlling an alignment of a robotically controlled elongate member at an access site on a patient may include a longitudinal support rail and support arms coupled with and extending from the longitudinal support rail to form an alignment joint. One or more of the support arms may be configured to maintain the alig...