US Patent Issued to Auris Health on March 31 for "Engagement control of instrument feeder devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,961, issued on March 31, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Engagement control of instrument feeder devices" was invented by Jiayi Lin (San Mateo, Calif.), Casey Teal Landey (San Francisco) and Chauncey F. Graetzel (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for controlling an instrument feeder device to engage with and/or control a medical instrument are discussed herein. For example, an instrument feeder device can be configured to couple to a drive output of a robotic arm and/or engage with an elongate shaft of a medical instrument. The drive output can be configured to c...