ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,174, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Surgical robotics system" was invented by Alan Yu (Union City, Calif.), Frederic H. Moll (San Francisco), Benjamin Richter (San Leandro, Calif.), Mark H. Olson (San Carlos, Calif.), Jason Gonzalez (San Francisco), Kyle Andrew Tucker (San Francisco), Paxton Maeder-York (San Francisco) and Gregory T. Schulte (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotics system with robotic arms is configurable to perform a variety of surgical procedures. The surgical robotics system can include a table, column, base, and robotic arms that are either ...