ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,963, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"System and method for integrated motion with an imaging device" was invented by Saleh Tabandeh (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Angel Perez Rosillo (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for integrated motion with an imaging device include a device having a first manipulator, a second manipulator, and a controller coupled to the first and second manipulators. When the device is in an imaging device motion mode, the controller is configured to determine whether a first portion of an instrument is located within a viewin...