US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 8 for "User initiated break-away clutching of a robotic system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,992, issued on July 8, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"User initiated break-away clutching of a robotic system" was invented by Paul Griffiths (Santa Clara, Calif.), Paul Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.), Nitish Swarup (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Michael Hanuschik (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User-initiated break-away clutching includes a robotic system having a joint, a brake or drive unit coupled to the joint, and a control system coupled with the brake or drive unit. The control system is configured to determine a first manual effort applied to the joint; inhibit, using the ...