US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 19 for "System and method for rapid halt and recovery of motion deviations in repositionable arms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,290, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for rapid halt and recovery of motion deviations in repositionable arms" was invented by Goran A. Lynch (Oakland, Calif.), Paul G. Griffiths (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Michael Turner (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted device includes a first repositionable arm configured to support a first end effector, a second repositionable arm configured to support a second end effector, and a control unit. The control unit configured to monitor an actual motion of at least one structure selected fro...