ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,176, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Automatic instrument position adjustment" was invented by Ryan Jeffrey Connolly (San Carlos, Calif.), Casey Teal Landey (San Francisco) and Chauncey F. Graetzel (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and techniques for compensating for insertion of an instrument into a working channel of another instrument in a surgical system. According to one embodiment, a method of compensation includes: detecting insertion of an insertable instrument into a working channel of a flexible instrument; detecting, based on a data s...