ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,532, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"System and method for force or torque limit compensation" was invented by Melody Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and David W. Weir (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for force and torque limit compensation include a computer-assisted device including a drive unit configured to operate a degree of freedom of an instrument supported by the computer-assisted device and a control unit. The control unit is configured to determine an expected amount of restraining or return to home force or torque applied to the degree of free...