US Patent Issued to Auris Health on July 7 for "Skeleton model instrument localization" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,793, issued on July 7, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Skeleton model instrument localization" was invented by Hedyeh Rafii-Tari (Mountain View, Calif.), Prasanth Jeevan (San Mateo, Calif.), Douglas T. Boyd (Soquel, Calif.), Melissa A. Teran (Redwood City, Calif.), Alexander James Sheehy (Redwood City, Calif.), Nicolas E. Robert (San Leandro, Calif.), Miroslav Drahos (Freehold, N.J.), Jeffery D. Howard (San Francisco), Andrew Esbenshade Zeldis (Berkeley, Calif.) and Rene Ango Mambembe (Nantes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including an instrument having an elongate body, and a control system ...