US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on March 17 for "Multi-port surgical robotic system architecture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,898, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Multi-port surgical robotic system architecture" was invented by Bruce Michael Schena (Menlo Park, Calif.), Roman L. Devengenzo (San Jose, Calif.), Scott Luke (Ben Lomond, Calif.), David Martin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Thomas G. Cooper (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Thomas Brown (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic surgery system includes an orienting platform, a first manipulator, a second manipulator supported by the orienting platform, and a first set-up linkage by which the first manipulator is coupled to and suppor...