US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Sept. 9 for "System and method for monitoring control points during reactive motion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,002, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for monitoring control points during reactive motion" was invented by Paul G Griffiths (Santa Clara, Calif.), Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.) and Goran A. Lynch (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for monitoring a computer-assisted device include a plurality of manipulators, each manipulator being configured to support an instrument, each manipulator having a control point; and a control unit. The control unit is configured to: determine a first spatial configuration of the plurality of con...