US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for haptic feedback in selection of menu items in a teleoperational system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,985, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for haptic feedback in selection of menu items in a teleoperational system" was invented by Nicola Diolaiti (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A teleoperational control system may comprise a processor and a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the processor, may cause the system to engage a first operational mode of the teleoperational control system for controlling a teleoperational instrument in response to movement of a contro...