US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 29 for "Systems and methods for determining registration of robotic manipulators or associated tools and control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,688, issued on July 29, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for determining registration of robotic manipulators or associated tools and control" was invented by Daniel H. Gomez (Los Gatos, Calif.), Arsen Babayan (San Jose, Calif.), Raul Herrera Barcenas (Newark, Calif.) and Marc E. Tognaccini (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system includes first and second manipulator assemblies in an operating environment and having separately movable bases. A processing unit is configured to receive first sensor data from a first plurality of sensors disposed on...