US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 15 for "System and method for variable velocity surgical instrument" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,306, issued on July 15, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for variable velocity surgical instrument" was invented by Matthew A. Wixey (San Jose, Calif.), Gabriel F. Brisson (Livermore, Calif.), William A. Burbank (Sandy Hook, Conn.), Patrick Flanagan (San Diego), Pushkar Hingwe (Los Altos, Calif.), David W. Weir (San Carlos, Calif.) and Donald F. Wilson Jr. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted device include an actuator and one or more processors. The computer-assisted device is configured to support an instrument having an end effector locate...