US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Feb. 17 for "Haptic profiles for input controls of a computer-assisted device" (California, Colorado, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,250, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Haptic profiles for input controls of a computer-assisted device" was invented by Varun Agrawal (Mountain View, Calif.), Hsien-Hsin Liao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Angel Jeremy Perez Rosillo (San Francisco), Korissa A. Reyes (Edmonds, Wash.), Lawton N. Verner (Saratoga, Calif.) and Keith J. Watza (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of providing a haptic barrier for an instrument include a computer-assisted device. The computer-assisted device includes a grip input control, a repositionable arm configured to suppor...