US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on July 15 for "Systems and methods for bifurcated navigation control of a manipulator cart included within a computer-assisted medical system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,404, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for bifurcated navigation control of a manipulator cart included within a computer-assisted medical system" was invented by Sophia R. Hannaford (Oakland, Calif.), Marisa C. Babb (Santa Clara, Calif.), Simon P. DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Craig Gotsill (San Francisco), Omid Mohareri (San Francisco) and Dinesh Rabindran (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is configured to direct a manipulator cart to navigate, in a first bifurcated navigation control mode, from an initial location to an intermediat...