US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 8 for "Systems and methods for control of steerable devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,827, issued on July 8, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for control of steerable devices" was invented by Nicola Diolaiti (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises monitoring movement of an elongate device and receiving user input commanding motion of the elongate device. The method also comprises determining a mode of operation based on at least one of the monitored movement or the received user input and adjusting a property of the elongate device based on a profile associated with the mode of operation. Adjusting the property of the elongate dev...