US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Jan. 20 for "Method and apparatus for providing input device repositioning reminders" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,192, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for providing input device repositioning reminders" was invented by Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for providing reminders with a computer-assisted robotic system. In one example, a robotic system comprises head and hand input devices, and a control system. The head input device comprises a sensor configured to sense head inputs provided by a head of an operator. The hand input device comprises a hand input sensor configured to sense hand i...