US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 17 for "System and method for breakaway clutching in an articulated arm" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,478, issued on June 17, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for breakaway clutching in an articulated arm" was invented by Daniel Miller (Fremont, Calif.), Nitish Swarup (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Turner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Arjang M. Hourtash (San Francisco), Paul G. Griffiths (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Paul W. Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of breakaway clutching in a device includes a plurality of links coupled by a plurality of joints, a brake coupled to brake a first joint of the plurality of joints, and a control unit operati...