US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for monitoring patient motion during a medical procedure" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,006, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for monitoring patient motion during a medical procedure" was invented by Teresa G. Gadda (Palo Alto, Calif.), Troy K. Adebar (San Jose, Calif.), Cristian Bianchi (Capannori, Italy), Vincent Duindam (San Francisco) and Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of monitoring a medical instrument are provided. The methods may include receiving state information from a control system in communication with the medical instrument; detecting motion of at least a portion of the medical instrume...