The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2021
Auris Health, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hedyeh Rafii-Tari, Mountain View, CA (US);
Menglong Ye, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mingyi Zheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Auris Health, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A robotic system is configured to automatically identify surgical instruments used during a bronchoscopy procedure. The robotic system can include a video capture device, a robotic manipulator, sensors configured to detect a configuration of the robotic manipulator, and control circuitry communicatively coupled to the robotic manipulator. The control circuitry is configured to perform, using a machine learning classifier, a first analysis of a bronchoscopy video of a patient site to track a medical instrument in the bronchoscopy video. The control circuitry can then identify a set of possible instrument identifications for the medical instrument in the bronchoscopy video based on the first analysis and an identified phase of the bronchoscopy procedure. The control circuitry can then track a motion of the medical instrument in the bronchoscopy video and select an identification from the set of possible instrument identification for the medical instrument based at least on the tracked motion.