US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 11 for "Control input accuracy for teleoperated surgical instrument" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,510, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Control input accuracy for teleoperated surgical instrument" was invented by Gabriel F. Brisson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Niels Smaby (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Melody Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises driving, by a motor, a camshaft of a transmission of a telesurgically operated instrument to a first rotational state of a plurality of rotational states. The camshaft defines a longitudinal axis and rotates about the longitudinal axis. The method further comprises engaging, in the first rotational state, a fir...