US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on April 29 for "Flux disambiguation for teleoperated surgical systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,226, issued on April 29, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Flux disambiguation for teleoperated surgical systems" was invented by Robert E. Holop (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Thomas G. Cooper (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving at a controller of a teleoperated surgical system a first signal indicating that a surgical instrument is in an installed position at a patient side cart of the teleoperated surgical system, receiving at the controller a second signal indicating that the surgical instrument is in a flux connection state, and outputting a signal via t...