US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 29 for "Methods of guiding manual movement of medical systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,986, issued on July 29, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods of guiding manual movement of medical systems" was invented by Simon Peter DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Brandon Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.) and Govinda Payyavula (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted medical system includes a user device wearable by an operator. The user device includes a display device configured to present imagery overlaid in an environment of a manipulator assembly, and a sensor configured to detect one or more landmarks in the environment. The medical system includes a controller ...