US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Dec. 16 for "Training users using indexed to motion pictures" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,778, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Training users using indexed to motion pictures" was invented by Anthony M. Jarc (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Liheng Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a sensor to sense a change in a position of an input control component and a tool; a storage medium embodies a collection of respective motion pictures, which show tool movement imparted by the control component in response to manual input provided by users, indexed based upon a metric; a storage medium embodies a set of instructions that cause a processor to...