ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,485, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Feedback for surgical robotic system with virtual reality" was invented by Bernhard Fuerst (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Eric Johnson (Pacific Grove, Calif.) and Pablo Garcia Kilroy (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual surgical robot being built from kinematic data is rendered to a display. A user input is received to effect a movement or a configuration of the virtual surgical robot. The kinematic data is modified based on evaluation of the movement or the configuration of the virtual surgical robot."

The patent was filed on March 12, 2...