US Patent Issued to Auris Health on May 26 for "Articulation angle determination for endoscopic instruments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,106, issued on May 26, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Articulation angle determination for endoscopic instruments" was invented by Shyamprasad Konduri (Belmont, Calif.), Sean Fielding (San Mateo, Calif.) and Chauncey F. Graetzel (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The articulation angle is an important characteristic to quantify for open loop control and/or closed loop control of a medical instrument comprising an elongated body. The articulation angle may be computed using various techniques including using inverse trigonometric functions on vector representations of elongated body poses. The ...