US Patent Issued to Auris Health on March 17 for "Systems and methods for collision detection and avoidance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,901, issued on March 17, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for collision detection and avoidance" was invented by Yanan Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Benjamin Robert Fredrickson (Belmont, Calif.), Ryan J. Murphy (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ying Mao (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples, a robotic medical system comprises a link of a robotic arm and a processor configured to control movement of the link based on a received input; determine a distance between the link and another object during the movement; and, responsive to the distance being within a threshold, adjust...