ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,178, issued on March 18, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Surgical platform with motorized arms for adjustable arm supports" was invented by Allison Tiffany Tse (San Francisco), Christian de Jesus Ruiz (Redwood City, Calif.), Yoichiro Dan (Los Altos, Calif.), Nicholas J. Eyre (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sven Wehrmann (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic medical system can include a motorized arm that is supported by a column of the system. The robotic arm can be operated by rotating a link of the motorized arm by actuating an actuator to drive rotation of a rotary joint. A brake can th...