US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods for configuring components in a minimally invasive instrument" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,123, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for configuring components in a minimally invasive instrument" was invented by Anoop B. Kowshik (Saratoga, Calif.), Caitlin Q. Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.), Vincent Duindam (San Francisco) and Carolyn M Fenech (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system comprises an elongate flexible catheter and a support structure mounted on the catheter. The support structure comprises a first alignment feature and a second alignment feature. The first alignment feature is configured to mate with a first se...