US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on May 26 for "Multi-port surgical robotic system architecture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,099, issued on May 26, 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 manipulator, and a set-up linkage. The manipulator includes an instrument holder, a pitch linkage, and a yaw linkage. The instrument holder is operable to translate...