US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 14 for "Systems and methods for optical fiber cleaning and interface particle reduction" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,831, issued on July 14, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for optical fiber cleaning and interface particle reduction" was invented by Matthew D. Rohr Daniel (San Francisco), Troy K. Adebar (San Jose, Calif.), David W. Bailey (Portola Valley, Calif.), Stephen J. Blumenkranz (Los Altos, Calif.), Edward P. Donlon (San Jose, Calif.), Mark E. Froggatt (Blacksburg, Va.), Christopher M. Major (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Randall L. Schlesinger (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an optical fiber, a manipulator assembly, and a control unit. The manipula...