US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 29 for "Systems and methods for coupling components of a medical system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,999, issued on July 29, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for coupling components of a medical system" was invented by Matthew D. Rohr Daniel (San Francisco), David W. Bailey (Portola Valley, Calif.), Stephen J. Blumenkranz (Los Altos, Calif.), Christopher R. Carlson (Belmont, Calif.) and Matthew D. Inouye (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for movably coupling a robotic medical instrument system to an anatomic orifice device comprises a hollow medial portion including a first end, a second end, and a passageway therebetween. The apparatus furthe...