ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,168, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for registration of location sensors" was invented by Subashini Srinivasan (San Carlos, Calif.), David Paul Noonan (San Francisco), David Burdick Berman (San Mateo, Calif.) and Brian Matthew Patenaude (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for registration of location sensors. In one aspect, a system includes an instrument and a processor configured to provide a first set of commands to drive the instrument along a first branch of the luminal network, the first branch being outside a pa...