US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 16 for "Systems and methods for positioning medical instruments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,634, issued on June 16, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for positioning medical instruments" was invented by Matthew D. Rohr Daniel (San Francisco) and David W. Bailey (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical instrument system is provided. The medical instrument system includes an instrument manipulator configured to control a pose of a medical instrument with respect to a patient anatomy. The medical instrument system further includes a support structure configured to control a pose of the instrument manipulator. The medical instrument system furthe...