US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Dec. 9 for "Adaptable integrated energy control system for electrosurgical tools in robotic surgical systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,037, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Adaptable integrated energy control system for electrosurgical tools in robotic surgical systems" was invented by David W. Robinson (Los Altos, Calif.), Thomas R. Nixon (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Hanuschik (Mountain View, Calif.), Randal P. Goldberg (San Mateo, Calif.), Jason Hemphill (Los Gatos, Calif.), David Q. Larkin (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Paul Millman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface for a surgical system can include a display configured to output video images of a remote surgical site at which one o...