US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 8 for "Systems and methods for instrument engagement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,881, issued on July 8, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for instrument engagement" was invented by Gabriel F. Brisson (Livermore, Calif.), Gregory W. Dachs II (San Mateo, Calif.), Niels Smaby (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Melody Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of engaging a medical instrument with a medical instrument manipulator comprises receiving an indication that a first input coupling of the medical instrument is positioned adjacent to a first drive output of the manipulator. The first drive output is driven by a first actuating element. In respo...