US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 28 for "System and method for variable velocity instrument" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,867, issued on July 28, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for control of an instrument include a device having an actuator. To perform an operation with an...