US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Aug. 12 for "Layered functionality for a user input mechanism in a computer-assisted surgical system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,361, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Layered functionality for a user input mechanism in a computer-assisted surgical system" was invented by Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.) and Adrian N. Bedard (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted surgical system is configured to activate a first mode of operation in which movement of a user control mechanism is translated to movement of a surgical instrument coupled to a manipulator arm; receive, during the first mode of operation, a first user input by way of a user input mechanism associated with th...