ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,978, issued on July 8, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Auto-configurable simulation system and method" was invented by Prasad V. Upadrasta (San Jose, Calif.), Anusha Balan (San Jose, Calif.), Joey Chau (Cupertino, Calif.) and Quang Tonthat (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary auto-configurable simulation system includes a control module configured to simulate a first type of surgical instrument manipulating system included in a plurality of types of surgical instrument manipulating systems and a computing device communicatively connected to the control module. The compu...