US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 22 for "Systems and methods for device verification and sensor calibration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,556, issued on July 22, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for device verification and sensor calibration" was invented by Nicola Diolaiti (San Francisco), Wanxi Liu (Foster City, Calif.) and Samuel B. Schorr (East Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for verification and calibration of robotic instruments are provided. A robotic system may include an instrument carriage to receive an elongate device, and the instrument carriage may comprise a set of drive sensors. The system may also include a tracking system configured to receive an indication...