ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,405, issued on July 15, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for kinematic optimization with shared robotic degrees-of-freedom" was invented by Nicholas J. Eyre (Redwood City, Calif.), Sean Patrick Kelly (San Francisco), Sven Wehrmann (Redwood City, Calif.), Yoichiro Dan (Los Altos, Calif.), Travis C. Covington (Campbell, Calif.), Yanan Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and David Stephen Mintz (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Robotic medical systems can be capable of kinematic optimization using shared robotic degrees-of-freedom. A robotic medical system can include a patient p...