ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,682, issued on May 27, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for mounting robotic components on a load cell" was invented by Ying Mao (San Mateo, Calif.), Aren Calder Hill (Mountain View, Calif.), Alex C. Spies (Redwood City, Calif.), Nicholas J. Eyre (Redwood City, Calif.) and Yanan Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects relate to a robotic surgery system, including a robotic arm with a base, a proximal portion and a distal portion. A tool driver is detachably coupled to a medical instrument and the tool driver is coupled with the distal portion of the robotic ...