US Patent Issued to Auris Health on May 26 for "Reduction of false positive haptic inputs in a robotic surgical system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,097, issued on May 26, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Reduction of false positive haptic inputs in a robotic surgical system" was invented by Nicholas Cheung (Redwood City, Calif.), Colin Allen Wilson (Burlingame, Calif.), Ellen Klingbeil (Mountain View, Calif.), Karan Handa (San Francisco) and Chembian Parthiban (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system may include an input device for controlling a medical instrument. The input device may include a grasper for receiving user input and a sensor coupled to the grasper for generating sensor information related to a user presence at the ...