ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,102, issued on June 3, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Advanced basket drive mode" was invented by Jiayi Lin (San Mateo, Calif.), Chauncey F. Graetzel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sarah Plewe (Redwood City, Calif.) and Rachel Leigh Chok (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system includes a robotic manipulator configured to: manipulate a medical instrument having a basket; open the basket at a first opening speed and a second, faster opening speed; and close the basket at a first closing speed and a second, faster closing speed. The system includes an input device configured to receive one or m...