ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,978, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Robotic instrument drive control" was invented by Jiayi Lin (San Mateo, Calif.), Chauncey F. Graetzel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Vivian Aralis (Palo Alto, Calif.), Aadel Al Jadda (San Carlos, Calif.) and Mingyen Ho (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system includes a medical instrument comprising an elongate shaft dimensioned to be disposed at least partially within an access sheath and control circuitry configured to cause the elongate shaft to be retracted at least partially within the access sheath, determine a position of a dist...