ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,244, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for transmitting emergency signals over differential signal lines in robotic systems" was invented by Eyal Aklivanh (Belmont, Calif.), Chase Paul Hathaway (San Francisco), Shane Daniel Kent (Millbrae, Calif.), Sven Wehrmann (Redwood City, Calif.) and Nicholas J. Eyre (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic medical system can include a first node, a second node, and a first pair of electrical conductors for differential communication between the first node and the second node so that data signals are communicate...