ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,058, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"High stiffness bar with internal actuators and internal cabling" was invented by Alvin Z. Ho (San Mateo, Calif.), Nicholas J. Eyre (Redwood City, Calif.), Colin Allen Wilson (Burlingame, Calif.) and Sven Wehrmann (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system may include an elongated arm support and a robotic arm supported on the elongated arm support. The robotic arm may translate along the elongated arm support. A partially enclosed cavity may be defined in the elongated arm support for receiving an electrical cable electricall...