US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for switching control between multiple instrument arms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,091, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for switching control between multiple instrument arms" was invented by Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.) and Pushkar Hingwe (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for reassigning control by a master controller between a plurality of teleoperational instruments is provided herein. An exemplary method includes detecting activation of an instrument reassignment input, computing proxy positions of at least a first instrument and a second instrument of the plurality of teleoperational in...