US Patent Issued to Auris Health on Nov. 11 for "Alignment techniques for percutaneous access" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,431, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Alignment techniques for percutaneous access" was invented by Elif Ayvali (Redwood City, Calif.), Bulat Ibragimov (Copenhagen, Denmark), Sarah Plewe (Redwood City, Calif.), Janet Zhen Bone (San Mateo, Calif.), Miroslav Drahos (Freehold, N.J.) and Yuriy Malinin (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for aligning a medical instrument for percutaneous access to a location within the human anatomy can include determining an orientation of the medical instrument, determining a target location within the human anatomy, and determining a ...