ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,823, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Anatomical feature tracking" was invented by Menglong Ye (Mountain View, Calif.), Yanwei Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Elif Ayvali (Redwood City, Calif.) and David Paul Noonan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Anatomical feature tracking involves advancing a medical instrument to a treatment site of a patient, the medical instrument comprising an imaging device, generating a first image of at least a portion of the treatment site using the imaging device of the medical instrument when a distal end of the medical instrument is in a first positio...