ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,899, issued on March 17, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Manual and robotic end effector movement coordination" was invented by Enrique Romo (Danville, Calif.), Frederic H. Moll (San Francisco), David S. Mintz (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Mark Lown (Castro Valley, Calif.), Siddharth Oli (Saint Therese, Canada) and Allen Jiang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system includes control circuitry configured to cause actuation of one or more actuators of each of a first robotic arm and a second robotic arm. The control circuitry is configured to determine a position of a first end effector ...