US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Oct. 6 for "Disturbance compensation in computer-assisted devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,421, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Disturbance compensation in computer-assisted devices" was invented by Nitish Swarup (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Paul G. Griffiths (Santa Clara, Calif.), Goran A. Lynch (Tahoe City, Calif.) and Daniel N. Miller (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disturbance compensation in teleoperated devices include a first articulated arm, a second articulated arm, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to detect a first disturbance to the first articulated arm occurring at a first time, the first disturbance moving an imaging device s...