US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on June 23 for "Teleoperated surgical system with patient health records based instrument control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,197, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Teleoperated surgical system with patient health records based instrument control" was invented by William C. Nowlin (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.), Simon P. DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Brian D. Hoffman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Paul W. Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for intra-surgical use of a surgical patient health record in a teleoperated surgical system that includes a surgical instrument and a surgical instrument actuator, comprising: receiving user inp...