US Patent Issued to Auris Health on May 27 for "Systems and methods for detecting contact between a link and an external object" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,530, issued on May 27, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detecting contact between a link and an external object" was invented by Nicholas J. Eyre (Redwood City, Calif.), Alex C. Spies (Redwood City, Calif.), Colin Allen Wilson (Burlingame, Calif.), Mason Myles Markee (Pacifica, Calif.), Ying Mao (San Mateo, Calif.), Bo Yang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yanan Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting contact between a link and an external object are provided. In one aspect, there is provided a robotic system, including a manipulatable link,...