US Patent Issued to Auris Health on May 27 for "Systems and methods for positioning an elongate member inside a body" (California, Texas, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,669, issued on May 27, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for positioning an elongate member inside a body" was invented by Neal A. Tanner (Burnet, Texas), Teresa Miller (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher M. Sewell (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Sean P. Walker (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for introducing and driving flexible members in a patient's body are described herein. In one embodiment, a robotic method includes positioning a flexible elongated member that has a preformed configuration, wherein at least a part of the flexible elongated member has a fi...