US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 10 for "Base positioning system for a controllable arm and related methods" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,637, issued on June 10, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Base positioning system for a controllable arm and related methods" was invented by Simon Peter DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Nicholas Leo Bernstein (Cary, N.C.), Paul Millman (San Jose, Calif.), Dinesh Rabindran (Cupertino, Calif.) and Alec Paul Robertson (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic system includes a base movable relative to a floor surface and a controllable arm extending from the base. The arm is configured to support and move a tool. The arm has a powered joint operable to position and/or orient a distal...