US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Feb. 25 for "Systems and methods for master/tool registration and control for intuitive motion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,837, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for master/tool registration and control for intuitive motion" was invented by Ambarish G. Goswami (Fremont, Calif.), Paul G. Griffiths (Santa Clara, Calif.), Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system comprises an input device movable by an operator and a processing unit. An operator reference frame is defined relative to the operator. The processing unit is configured to present, to the operator, a first image of a first tool captured by an i...