ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,006, issued on March 25, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Electromagnetic distortion detection and compensation" was invented by Chauncey F. Graetzel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Subashini Srinivasan (San Carlos, Calif.), Yuriy Malinin (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Shyamprasad Konduri (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for electromagnetic (EM) distortion detection and compensation are disclosed. In one aspect, the system includes an instrument, the system configured to: determine a reference position of the distal end of the instrument at a first time based on EM location data, determine t...