US Patent Issued to Auris Health on Sept. 8 for "Methods and systems for instrument tracking and navigation within luminal networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,950, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Auris Health Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for instrument tracking and navigation within luminal networks" was invented by Hedyeh Rafii-Tari (Mountain View, Calif.) and Prasanth Jeevan (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for instrument tracking and navigation are described. In one embodiment, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium has stored thereon instructions that, when executed, cause a processor of a device to at least receive position sensor data from at least one position sensor tracking an instrument positioned within a lum...