US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 1 for "Method and system for control using hand tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,101, issued on July 1, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Method and system for control using hand tracking" was invented by Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.), Simon P. Dimaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Paul E. Lilagan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for control using hand tracking include a system having an input control configured to be manipulated by an operator of the system, a hand tracking unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a first position of the input control; receive, from the hand tracking unit, ...