ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,528, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Closure joint engagement for surgical tool" was invented by Ali Asadian (San Jose, Calif.), Alireza Hariri (Berkeley, Calif.) and Andrew Dahdouh (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for a surgical tool or a surgical robotic system. A coupling device driven by a plurality of drive disks corresponds to a first motor and a second motor. One or more processors are configured to send a low torque command to a first motor, send the low torque command to a second motor, determine whether the f...