US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Feb. 24 for "Staged force feedback transitioning between control states" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,181, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Staged force feedback transitioning between control states" was invented by Lawton N. Verner (Saratoga, Calif.) and Hsien-Hsin Liao (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system is provided comprising: an input device; and a controller for receiving control inputs from the input device and for providing haptic feedback at the input device, the controller configured to apply a staged transition from a first haptic feedback profile at the input device to a second haptic feedback profile at the input device."

The paten...