US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 16 for "Torque compensation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,532, issued on June 16, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Torque compensation" was invented by David W. Weir (San Carlos, Calif.), Melody Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gabriel F. Brisson (Livermore, Calif.), Kevin Durant (Alameda, Calif.) and Grant Duque (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for torque compensation include a system include actuating means coupled to a clamping means and processing means. The processing means is configured to acquire an initial torque limit for the clamping means; adjust the initial torque limit based on an angle of a wrist of the clamping means t...