US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on April 8 for "Systems and methods of device control with operator and motion sensing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,541, issued on April 8, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of device control with operator and motion sensing" was invented by Nicola Diolaiti (Menlo Park, Calif.), Benjamin L. Lee (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shu-Wen Yu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an input device structurally configured to be utilized by an operator to control a medical device. The system further comprises a motion sensor associated with the input device and configured to detect a displacement distance of the input device. The system further comprises a control unit config...