US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on June 16 for "Instrument presence and rotational offset sensing in flexible system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,624, issued on June 16, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Instrument presence and rotational offset sensing in flexible system" was invented by Andrey Polonsky (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David W. Bailey (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adam K. Begley (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joseph D. Bogusky (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dominique D. Brichard (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lucas S. Gordon (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tajalli Shoghi Ghalehshahi (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system may include an elongated flexible body including a channel extending through the elongated flexible body. The elongated flexible bod...