ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,843, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for adaptive input mapping" was invented by Christopher R. Carlson (Belmont, Calif.) and Federico Barbagli (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system includes an operator input device and a control system. The operator input device is configured to generate input instructions for controlling a medical instrument. The control system is configured to: receive an input instruction corresponding to an operator input device movement; determine, based on the input instruction, a dynamic parameter for th...