US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Dec. 16 for "Computer-assisted medical systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,155, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Computer-assisted medical systems and methods" was invented by Simon Peter Dimaio (San Carlos, Calif.), David William Bailey (Portola Valley, Calif.), Theodore W. Rogers (Alameda, Calif.) and Alec Paul Robertson (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted medical system includes a manipulator, an instrument holder physically coupled to the manipulator arm, and a controller that includes a computer processor. The instrument holder includes an instrument holder carriage configured to releasably couple to an instrum...