US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on May 12 for "Computer-assisted tele-operated surgery systems and methods" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,760, issued on May 12, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Computer-assisted tele-operated surgery systems and methods" was invented by Dinesh Rabindran (San Jose, Calif.), Katherine Suzanne Anderson (Mountain View, Calif.), Nicholas Leo Bernstein (Cary, N.C.), Simon Peter Dimaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Catherine Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.), Theodore W. Rogers (San Jose, Calif.), Kollin Myles Tierling (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Andrew Cullen Waterbury (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted system includes a manipulator assembly configured to couple to a cannula at a...