US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Feb. 25 for "Systems and methods for operating an end effector" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,829, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for operating an end effector" was invented by David W. Weir (San Carlos, Calif.), Grant Duque (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Durant (Alameda, Calif.), Patrick Flanagan (San Diego), Margaret M. Nixon (San Jose, Calif.), David W. Robinson (Los Altos, Calif.) and John W. Zabinski (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating an end effector include an end effector for grasping a material, a drive system coupled to the end effector, a user interface, and a processor. The processor is configu...