US Patent Issued to Auris Health on July 14 for "Detecting cable breakage on cable driven tools" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,251, issued on July 14, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting cable breakage on cable driven tools" was invented by Edgar Ignacio Ergueta Tejerina (San Jose, Calif.) and Alireza Hariri (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic tool used with a surgical robotic system can include cables that effect movement in the surgical robotic tool. A brake in any of these cables can be detected by checking a plurality of conditions. A process can compare a) a tension error against a first threshold, b) a rate of change of the sensed tension of the cable against a second threshold, and c) a r...