US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Oct. 20 for "Actuated grips for controller" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,955, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Actuated grips for controller" was invented by Matthew Cavalier (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Luptak (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Gregory W. Dachs II (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to actuated grips for a controller. In some implementations, a controller includes a central member, a grip member coupled to the central member and moveable in a grip degree of freedom, a shaft coupled to the grip member, and an actuator coupled to the shaft and operative to output an actuator force on the shaft. The actuator...