US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Aug. 11 for "Method and system for controlling instrument grip behavior" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,498, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Method and system for controlling instrument grip behavior" was invented by Arjang M. Hourtash (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Christine E. Draper (Menlo Park, Calif.), Caroline A. Edwards (Foster City, Calif.), Michael Ikeda (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Erasmo Lopez Calleros (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted medical system includes a robotic manipulator arm configured to support an instrument. The instrument includes an instrument shaft and jaws disposed at a distal end of the instrument shaft. The computer-assis...