US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 17 for "Methods and devices for tele-surgical table registration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,480, issued on June 17, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for tele-surgical table registration" was invented by Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.) and Jonathan M. Sorger (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical robotic system may comprise a manipulator assembly including a manipulator arm having a distal portion. The surgical robotic system may also comprise a registration device mounted to a surgical table. The table mounted registration device includes a registration element shaped to contact with the distal portion of the manipulator arm by receiving the di...