US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on May 12 for "Beacon-based systems, methods, and apparatuses for managing communicative pairing of an apparatus with a medical system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,754, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Beacon-based systems, methods, and apparatuses for managing communicative pairing of an apparatus with a medical system" was invented by A. Jonathan McLeod (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.), Alan S Bradley (Alameda, Calif.), Christopher R. Burns (San Jose, Calif.) and Wen Pei Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first ultrasonic beacon transmission includes a first pilot signal and a first encoded information signal. An apparatus may detect the first pilot signal and decode, based on the first pilot sig...