ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,819, issued on June 9, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Phase segmentation of a percutaneous medical procedure" was invented by Elif Ayvali (Redwood City, Calif.) and Bulat Ibragimov (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for segmenting a percutaneous medical procedure based on one or more determinable phases. The techniques may include obtaining a first set of features over a first time period. The first set of features may be derived from instrument telemetry data corresponding to an endoluminal scope instrument. The technique may also include obtaining a second set of features over t...