ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,612, issued on June 2, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Medical robotics systems implementing axis constraints during actuation of one or more motorized joints" was invented by David Stephen Mintz (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Bruce R. Woodley (Palo Alto, Calif.), Travis Michael Schuh (Los Altos, Calif.), Yanan Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Matthew Reagan Williams (Walnut Creek, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for medical robotic systems that leverage a versatile, open kinematic chain together with a set of medical-procedure-specific software-controlled actua...