ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,237, issued on May 6, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Directed fluidics" was invented by Jason Joseph Hsu (Mountain View, Calif.), Ka Chun Wong (South San Francisco, Calif.), Rachel Leigh Chok (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joshua F. DeFonzo (San Carlos, Calif.), Binh T. Nguyen (Newark, Calif.), Vivian Thalia Nguyen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rishi Nikhil Purohit (Fremont, Calif.) and Joseph A. Urban Jr. (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for administering directed fluidics during a medical procedure for removing an object are disclosed. A method includes inserting first and second medica...