US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 5 for "Surgical system with obstacle indication system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,921, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Surgical system with obstacle indication system" was invented by Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.), Michael L. Hanuschik (Mountain View, Calif.) and Paul W. Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system includes a mobile cart configured to support one or more medical instruments; an illumination source mounted on the mobile cart, the illumination source configured to direct light in a direction of a path of the mobile cart during movement relative to a ground surface; and a control system operably coupled ...