US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for controlling tool with articulatable distal portion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,507, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for controlling tool with articulatable distal portion" was invented by Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.) and David W. Robinson (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a medical tool including a shaft having proximal and distal ends and an articulatable distal portion coupled to the distal end of the shaft. The system also comprises a processing unit including one or more processors. The processing unit is configured to determine a target in a medical environment. The articulatable dis...