US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on March 25 for "Association processes and related systems for manipulators" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,011, issued on March 25, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Association processes and related systems for manipulators" was invented by Daniel H. Gomez (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ian E. McDowall (Woodside, Calif.), Govinda Payyavula (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John Ryan Steger (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted medical system includes manipulators, a user input system, a user output system comprising a display device, and a controller configured to execute instructions to perform operations. The operations include, in a pairing mode and in response to a first set of sign...