US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Feb. 3 for "Detection and mitigation of predicted collisions of objects with user control system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,613, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Detection and mitigation of predicted collisions of objects with user control system" was invented by Randal P. Goldberg (San Mateo, Calif.), Matthew Cavalier (San Jose, Calif.), Cedric Schwab (San Jose, Calif.), Pushkar Hingwe (Los Altos, Calif.) and Lawton N. Verner (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to detection and mitigation of potential collisions with a user control system. In some implementations, a method includes detecting an object in a sensing field of a sensor of a user control system, and t...