US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Sept. 16 for "Teleoperated surgical system with surgeon skill level based instrument control" (California, North Carolina, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,828, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Teleoperated surgical system with surgeon skill level based instrument control" was invented by William C. Nowlin (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.), Simon P. DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Brian D. Hoffman (Mountain View, Calif.), Anthony M. Jarc (Johns Creek, Ga.), Henry C. Lin (Cupertino, Calif.), May Quo-Mei Liu (Rougemont, N.C.), Ian E. McDowall (San Francisco) and Brent Tokarchuk (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teleoperated surgical system is provided comprising: a first robotic surgical...