US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 25 for "Structural adjustment systems and methods for a teleoperational medical system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,522, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Structural adjustment systems and methods for a teleoperational medical system" was invented by Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.) and Paul W. Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a sensing means for sensing an arrangement of a manipulator assembly. The system further comprises a control means for: determining a motion limit of the manipulator assembly based on the sensed arrangement; and selecting a threshold limit from a plurality of pre-stored threshold limits based on which procedure type i...