ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,470, issued on June 17, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"System and method for automated docking" was invented by Saleh Tabandeh (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Daniel H. Gomez (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automated docking include a linkage, a docking arm located near a distal end of the linkage, a docking support mechanism, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to detect a docking port using the docking support mechanism and actuate the linkage based on the detection to align the docking arm with the docking port, move the...