ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,485, issued on June 17, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Console overlay and methods of using same" was invented by Rishi Nikhil Purohit (Fremont, Calif.), Barry Nichols Gardiner (Orinda, Calif.) and Daniel T. Wallace (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and techniques for a medical procedure. For example, the system may include one or more robotic arms, an imaging device, a master controller, a viewer configured to render one or more digital images based on image data from the imaging device, at least one computer-readable memory having stored thereon executable instruction...