ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,552, issued on July 22, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Path-based navigation of tubular networks" was invented by Subashini Srinivasan (San Carlos, Calif.), Hedyeh Rafii-Tari (Mountain View, Calif.), Ritwik Ummalaneni (San Mateo, Calif.), David Paul Noonan (San Francisco) and Prasanth Jeevan (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for path-based navigation of tubular networks. In one aspect, the method includes receiving location data from at least one of a set of location sensors and a set of robot command inputs, the location data being indicative of a location o...