US Patent Issued to Auris Health on June 16 for "Instrument retraction facilitation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,637, issued on June 16, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Instrument retraction facilitation" was invented by Jiayi Lin (San Mateo, Calif.), Chauncey F. Graetzel (Palo Alto, Calif.) and John Raymond Young (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system includes one or more robotic manipulators, one or more actuators associated with at least one of the one or more robotic manipulators, one or more sensors associated with the one or more robotic manipulators and configured to generate signals indicating a force experienced by the one or more actuators, and control circuitry communicatively cou...