US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 11 for "Techniques for controlling an imaging device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,278, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Techniques for controlling an imaging device" was invented by Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.) and Yiming Mei (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for controlling an imaging device include a first repositionable arm comprising a plurality of actuators configured to cause movement of the first repositionable arm and a plurality of joints; and a controller comprising one or more hardware processors. The controller is configured to determine whether an imaging device supported by the first repositionable arm compr...