US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on July 29 for "Detection of user touch on controller handle" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,004, issued on July 29, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Detection of user touch on controller handle" was invented by Cedric Schwab (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to detecting user touch on a controller handle. In some implementations, a non-controlling mode of a control system is activated, and in the non-controlling mode, one or more actuators are controlled to cause a vibration to be provided on a handle of a controller. The vibration is sensed with one or more sensors, and a difference in the vibration is determined to have occurred relative to a re...