US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on March 4 for "Medical robotic system providing an auxiliary view including range of motion limitations for articulatable instruments extending out of a distal end of an entry guide" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,396, issued on March 4, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Medical robotic system providing an auxiliary view including range of motion limitations for articulatable instruments extending out of a distal end of an entry guide" was invented by Marc E. Tognaccini (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Daniel H. Gomez (Los Gatos, Calif.), Nicola Diolaiti (Menlo Park, Calif.), Tabish Mustufa (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Probal Mitra (Woodside, Calif.) and Paul E. Lilagan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system comprises an entry guide, a display, and a processor. The processor may be configured to...