US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Oct. 27 for "Reducing energy buildup in servo-controlled mechanisms" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,286, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Reducing energy buildup in servo-controlled mechanisms" was invented by Gabriel Brisson (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted medical system includes a manipulator arm and a controller. The controller includes a computer processor. The controller is configured to servo at least one joint associated with at least one manipulator arm segment of the manipulator arm, the servoing including executing a servo loop. Executing the servo loop includes obtaining an actual state of the manipulator arm, computing a dif...