US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Dec. 9 for "Redundant axis and degree of freedom for hardware-constrained remote center robotic manipulator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,039, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Redundant axis and degree of freedom for hardware-constrained remote center robotic manipulator" was invented by Bruce Michael Schena (Menlo Park, Calif.), Roman L. Devengenzo (San Jose, Calif.), Gary C. Ettinger (Cupertino, Calif.), Eugene F. Duval (Menlo Park, Calif.), Nicola Diolaiti (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Daniel H. Gomez (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system includes a manipulator, a surgical tool and a control system. The manipulator includes a manipulator mounting base, a pitch mechanism, a roll mechani...