US Patent Issued to Auris Health on Aug. 11 for "Collision avoidance in surgical robotics based on detection of contact information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,277, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Collision avoidance in surgical robotics based on detection of contact information" was invented by Bo Yang (Mountain View, Calif.), Yanan Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hossein Taheri (Foster City, Calif.), Babak Kianmajd (Hayward, Calif.) and Ying Mao (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Robotic systems can be capable of collision detection and avoidance. A medical robotic system can include a first kinematic chain and one or more sensors positioned to detect one or more parameters of contact with one or more portions of the first kinematic c...