US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical operations on June 2 for "Method and system for operating a surgical instrument" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,609, issued on June 2, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Method and system for operating a surgical instrument" was invented by Giuseppe Maria Prisco (Calci Pisa, Italy), Myriam J. Curet (Los Altos, Calif.), Vincent Duindam (San Francisco), Catherine J. Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.), Theodore W. Rogers (Alameda, Calif.) and Katherine D. Stoy (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a manually operated instrument, a reference fixture positioned in a fixed world reference frame, and a shape sensor coupled to the manually operated instrument. The shape sensor extends f...