US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Dec. 9 for "Limited movement of a surgical mounting platform controlled by manual motion of robotic arms" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,038, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Limited movement of a surgical mounting platform controlled by manual motion of robotic arms" was invented by Paul G. Griffiths (Santa Clara, Calif.), Paul W. Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.), Nitish Swarup (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Costa (Los Angeles), David Q. Larkin (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Thomas G. Cooper (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for controlling a system include a first structural means supporting a manipulating means, a second structural means supporting the first structural means, and a processing ...