US Patent Issued to Auris Health on June 23 for "Integrated robotic insufflation and smoke evacuation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,200, issued on June 23, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated robotic insufflation and smoke evacuation" was invented by Geoffrey Robert Russell (San Jose, Calif.), Omar J. Vakharia (San Jose, Calif.) and John H. Magnasco (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system comprising: a robotic arm; a tool drive coupled to the robotic arm; a cannula interface configured to couple a cannula to the tool drive, the cannula interface having a fluid pathway in communication with an interior lumen of the cannula; and an insufflation pathway coupled to the robotic arm, the insufflation p...