US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Sept. 8 for "Temporal non-overlap of teleoperation and headrest adjustment in a computer-assisted teleoperation system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,537, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Temporal non-overlap of teleoperation and headrest adjustment in a computer-assisted teleoperation system" was invented by Ehsan Noohi Bezanjani (Los Gatos, Calif.), Olga Greenberg (San Jose, Calif.), Mohammad Sina Parastegari (Campbell, Calif.), Russell Parrish (San Jose, Calif.), Maureen Riddell (San Jose, Calif.), Charles A. Sweeney (Manteca, Calif.) and Allen C. Thompson (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted teleoperation system and method for operating the same are provided that enforce a temporal non-...