ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,645, issued on June 10, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for collision avoidance using object models" was invented by Benjamin Robert Fredrickson (Belmont, Calif.), Nicholas J. Eyre (Redwood City, Calif.), Alexander Tarek Hassan (San Francisco) and Eloi Le Roux (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for collision avoidance using object models are provided. In one aspect, a robotic medical system, includes a platform, one or more robotic arms coupled to the platform, a console configured to receive input commanding motion of the one or more robotic arms, a process...