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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 12, 2023
Applicant:

Auris Health, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Elif Ayvali, Redwood City, CA (US);

Menglong Ye, Mountain View, CA (US);

Bulat Ibragimov, Copenhagen, DK;

David Burdick Berman, Millbrae, CA (US);

Assignee:

Auris Health, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/045 (2006.01); A61B 1/307 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01); A61B 34/20 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/307 (2013.01); A61B 1/00045 (2013.01); A61B 1/045 (2013.01); A61B 90/37 (2016.02); A61B 2034/2051 (2016.02); A61B 34/25 (2016.02);
Abstract

A method of localizing a target anatomy involves advancing a ureteroscope to a target calyx of a kidney of a patient through at least a portion of a urinary tract of the patient, determining a positional offset between one or more position sensors associated with the ureteroscope and a target papilla of the kidney that is at least partially exposed within the target calyx, and determining a percutaneous access target based at least in part on one or more of a present position of the one or more position sensors or the positional offset.


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