US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for automatic grip adjustment during energy delivery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,533, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automatic grip adjustment during energy delivery" was invented by Angelica Ruszkowski (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gabriel F. Brisson (Livermore, Calif.), Craig R. Gerbi (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Jason Hemphill (Los Gatos, Calif.), Mathew Nussbaum (Campbell, Calif.) and Harsukhdeep Singh Ratia (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for grip adjustment during energy delivery include an instrument comprising an end effector having a first jaw and a second jaw. Each of the first jaw and the s...