US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for fault reaction mechanisms for medical robotic systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,772, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for fault reaction mechanisms for medical robotic systems" was invented by Federico Barbagli (San Francisco), Christopher R. Carlson (Belmont, Calif.), Samuel Y. Chang (Mountain View, Calif.), Nicola Diolaiti (Menlo Park, Calif.), Vincent Duindam (San Francisco) and Salomon J. Trujillo (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical robotic system includes a flexible elongate body configured to receive a medical instrument, a manipulator assembly comprising one or more actuators, and a control system. The contr...