ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,785, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"System and method of activating manual manipulation using linkage interaction sensing" was invented by Bo Yang (Mountain View, Calif.), Yanan Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexander Tarek Hassan (San Francisco), Mason Myles Markee (Pacifica, Calif.) and Ying Mao (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Robotic medical systems capable of manual manipulation are described. A robotic medical system can include a robotic arm and a sensor architecture. The sensor architecture can include one or more non-joint based sensors that are positioned to detec...