US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Nov. 18 for "Method and system for controlling flexible devices in presence of abnormal sensor signals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,894, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Method and system for controlling flexible devices in presence of abnormal sensor signals" was invented by Samuel B. Schorr (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Nicola Diolaiti (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Wanxi Liu (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted medical system includes a flexible catheter configured to articulate along a degree of freedom, an actuator disposed at a proximal portion of the flexible catheter, an actuator sensor, and an articulation sensor. The actuator is configured to actuate the flexible cathete...