US Patent Issued to Auris Health on Oct. 7 for "Tool positioning for medical instruments with working channels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,696, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tool positioning for medical instruments with working channels" was invented by David P. Noonan (San Francisco), Joseph A. Urban Jr. (San Carlos, Calif.) and Varun Agrawal (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques discussed herein relate to controlling robotic components to move medical instruments and tools configured to be advanced through the medical instruments. For example, a system can include a medical instrument with a working channel, a first robotic component configured to control movement of the medical instrument, and a sec...