US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on March 17 for "Techniques for following commands of an input device using a constrained proxy" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,533, issued on March 17, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Techniques for following commands of an input device using a constrained proxy" was invented by Arjang M. Hourtash (Millbrae, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques include a computer-assisted device having an input control, a functional structure, and a processing system. The functional structure is configured to include a repositionable structure, and the repositionable structure is configured to support an instrument. The processing system is configured to receive a movement command from the input control, update ...