US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on April 21 for "Alignment of a connector interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,807, issued on April 21, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Alignment of a connector interface" was invented by Christopher M. Major (Santa Clara, Calif.), Scot C. Fairchild (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ryan C. Abbott (San Jose, Calif.), David W. Bailey (Portola Valley, Calif.), Edward P. Donlon (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew D. Rohr Daniel (San Francisco) and Timothy D. Boucher (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating optical fiber connector interface generally includes a retention bracket, a translating socket slidingly associated with the retention bracket, and a biasing element po...