US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Aug. 26 for "Interaction between user-interface and instrument motion controller" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,552, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Interaction between user-interface and instrument motion controller" was invented by Ehsan Noohi Bezanjani (Los Gatos, Calif.), Keith Watza (Boulder, Colo.), Ashwinram Suresh (San Jose, Calif.), Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.), Sean Duffy (San Jose, Calif.) and Sarthak Ghosh (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided to control actuation of a click event by a hand-actuated selector moveably mounted to a mount structure, comprising: in a first control state, imparting a maintaining force to the hand-actua...