US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 25 for "Setting and using software remote centers of motion for computer-assisted systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,141, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Setting and using software remote centers of motion for computer-assisted systems" was invented by Janice M. Von Itter (Oakland, Calif.), Nandini Devi Gurunathan (Cupertino, Calif.), Nathan C. Ho (Fremont, Calif.), Robert D. Kahn (Gilroy, Calif.), Goran A. Lynch (Oakland, Calif.), Lucas A Reilly (Campbell, Calif.) and Amin Zeiaee (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Setting and using a software remote center of motion (RCM) for a computer-assisted system including an input control, a repositionable structure comprising a plur...