ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,002, issued on July 29, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Redwood City, Iowa).
"Workspace optimization for robotic surgery" was invented by Yanan Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Caitlin Marie Romanczyk (San Francisco), Ryan J. Murphy (Arvada, Colo.), David Stephen Mintz (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Nicholas J. Eyre (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for optimizing the configuration of a robotic system by moving the links of the system in a null space to minimize a cost function. The null space being defined by the desired set of end effector pose. The cost function may b...