US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for tool detection and associated control modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,459, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for tool detection and associated control modes" was invented by Kirk A. Nichols (San Jose, Calif.), Nicola Diolaiti (Menlo Park, Calif.), Wanxi Liu (Foster City, Calif.) and June Gyu Park (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting a tool being received in a medical system, the method including receiving, in a tool recognition assembly having a first reader with a first detection zone, the tool having a first target. The method also includes acquiring first sensor data from the first reader ...