US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Jan. 13 for "Operating mode control systems and methods for a computer-assisted surgical system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,194, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Operating mode control systems and methods for a computer-assisted surgical system" was invented by Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.), Heath Feather (Cupertino, Calif.) and Alexandre V. Matveev (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary system may access head presence data and eye tracking data. The head presence data indicates a presence or an absence of a head of a user within a vicinity of a viewer console. The eye tracking data indicates whether an eye of a user is gazing at a display device. If the head pre...