ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,177, issued on March 18, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Control scheme calibration for medical instruments" was invented by Chauncey F. Graetzel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Russell W. Pong (Newark, Calif.), Sarah Plewe (Redwood City, Calif.), Toni Divic (Stanford, Calif.) and Aadel Al-Jadda (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for calibrating a medical instrument are discussed herein. For example, a first instrument can be configured to access an anatomical site via a first access path and a second instrument can be configured to access the anatomical site via a second ...