US Patent Issued to Auris Health on March 17 for "AI-based automatic tool presence and workflow/phase/activity recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,891, issued on March 17, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"AI-based automatic tool presence and workflow/phase/activity recognition" was invented by Hedyeh Rafii-Tari (Mountain View, Calif.), Menglong Ye (Mountain View, Calif.) and Mingyi Zheng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system is configured to automatically identify surgical instruments used during a bronchoscopy procedure. The robotic system can include a video capture device, a robotic manipulator, sensors configured to detect a configuration of the robotic manipulator, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the ro...