US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on June 23 for "Uniform scaling of haptic actuators" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,201, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Uniform scaling of haptic actuators" was invented by Lawton N. Verner (Saratoga, Calif.) and Hsien-Hsin Liao (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical system is provided comprising: an input device; a first actuator and a second actuator; a controller for controlling the first actuator and the second actuator, the controller configured to apply a first scale factor to a first commanded output and a second commanded output for the first actuator the second actuator, respectively, when the first commanded output would fal...