US Patent Issued to Auris Health on March 24 for "Multiple-input instrument position determination" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,485, issued on March 24, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multiple-input instrument position determination" was invented by Hedyeh Rafii-Tari (Mountain View, Calif.), Ritwik Ummalaneni (San Mateo, Calif.), Simon Wei Quan Lim (San Mateo, Calif.) and Prasanth Jeevan (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system includes an instrument including an elongate shaft, a robotic manipulator configured to manipulate the elongate shaft of the instrument, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the robotic manipulator and configured to determine a first estimated position of at least a port...