Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.

Immersion Corporation

Fresh Health Inc.

X Development LLC

Intuitive Surgical, Inc.

Other

Microscribe, LLC

Google Inc.

Golfpro International, Inc.

Bruce M Schena

Louis B Rosenberg

Gregory William Dachs, Ii

Roman L Devengenzo

Paul W Mohr

David Q Larkin

Thomas G Cooper

William C Nowlin

Gary S Guthart

Adam C Braun

Kenneth M Martin

Nicola Diolaiti

William A Burbank

Pushkar Hingwe

Erik James Shahoian

David W Robinson

Michael Lee Hanuschik

S Christopher Anderson

David F Moore

Joseph Orban, Iii

Arjang M Hourtash

Thomas R Nixon

Randal P Goldberg

Nitish Swarup

Eugene F Duval

Stephen J Blumenkranz

Daniel H Gomez

Todd R Solomon

Catherine J Mohr

Gregory Allen Springer

Edward P Donlon

Paul Millman

Ian E McDowall

David W Bailey

Allen R Boronkay

David C Shafer

Tao Zhao

Brandon D Itkowitz

Lawrence K Lam

William Riis Hamburgen

Paul G Griffiths

Jeffrey Y Hayashida

David Joseph Rosa

Simon Peter DiMaio

William Mitchell Scott

Andreas Georg Nowatzyk

Jonathan Michael Sorger

David W Weir

Robert E Holop

Niels Smaby

Tyler J Morrissette

Alan Eton Loh

Gary C Ettinger

Angela Junyan Chu

Kristina Jenna Cook

Bernard G Jackson

Amir Hossein Chaghajerdi

Scott Osborne Luke

Michael D Levin

Todd E Murphy

Mark W Zimmer

Christopher J Hasser

William A McDonald, Ii

Matthew R Cavalier

Jason Jiang

Kollin M Tierling

Dean F Hoornaert

Allen C Thompson

Gerald Thomas Ryle

Sophie Katherine Sheeline

Ryan Christopher Evans

Jonathan Riley Cox

Craig Tsuji

Steven P Vassallo

Alexander Jasso

John Stiggelbout

Thomas W Brown

Charles H Klieman

Scott B Brave

David L Martin

Donald Alden

Henry Hazebrouck

Jeffrey Bingham

Alan W Petersen

John W Zabinski

Margaret M Nixon

Mike D Levin

John Stuart Fitch

Kelvin Kwong

Melody Wu

Lawton N Verner

Yi Tao

Robert C Reid

James Cooper

John A Barton

Steven J Blumenkranz

Ryan D Bruneau

Jonathan D Halderman

Alex Shafer

Kiarash Vakhshouri

A handle for an oral health device is disclosed. The handle includes a stationary body, a hydraulic turbine coupled to the stationary body, a manifold selector disc coupled to the hydraulic turbine, and a manifold disc that includes a plurality of holes. The stationary body includes a plurality of vanes. The hydraulic turbine includes a plurality of blades. The manifold selector disc is configured to rotate when the hydraulic turbine rotates. The manifold selector disc includes a gateway. The manifold selector disc is configured to fully expose, as the hydraulic turbine rotates, a first hole of the plurality of holes or partially expose a first hole of the plurality of holes and a second hole of the plurality of holes.

Handle for an oral health device

A system comprises an instrument carriage configured to support an instrument. The instrument comprises a joint output and an input coupling configured to move the joint output. The instrument carriage comprises an actuating element. The actuating element comprises a drive input and an actuator coupled to drive the drive input. The drive input is configured to engage the input coupling. The system also comprises a control system configured to drive the drive input with the actuator and determine whether the drive input has engaged the input coupling based on a determination of whether the actuator experiences a resistance greater than a resistance threshold.

Systems and methods for confirming disc engagement

An oral insert includes a plurality of fluid nozzles, a plurality of manifolds, and an attachment mechanism configured to be releasably attach with a handle. Each of the manifolds is associated with a corresponding subset of the plurality of fluid nozzles. The attachment mechanism includes a manifold connector having a plurality of manifold openings arranged in a circle. Each of the plurality of manifold openings is associated with one of plurality of manifolds.

Systems and methods for personalized oral care

Described herein are systems and methods for providing personalized oral care. A system for oral care comprises an oral insert. The oral insert is sized and shaped according to a user's oral cavity, and has a plurality of fluid nozzles and an effluence conduit to channel fluid out of the user's oral cavity. Pressurized fluid provided through the nozzles are directed to, for example, the interproximal spaces between the user's teeth. In some variations, a system comprises an oral insert and an elastomeric substrate that is attached to the oral insert. In some variations, the elastomeric substrate comprises a textured surface vibrates and/or mechanically agitates and/or translates along the surface of the user's teeth. In some variations, a system for oral care comprises a microbiome collection chamber. Some variations comprise dental shim devices that are used for acquiring oral structure data and alignment between the upper and lower arches.

A medical robotic assembly configured to support, insert, retract, and actuate a surgical instrument. The medical robotic assembly includes a surgical instrument carriage configured for detachably mounting a surgical instrument to the surgical instrument carriage. The surgical instrument carriage includes a motor housing, a first output assembly in the motor housing, a second output assembly in the motor housing, a first sensor assembly configured to sense a rotational orientation of a first output drive coupling, and a second sensor assembly configured to sense a rotational orientation of a second output drive coupling.

Instrument carriage assembly for surgical system

An instrument sterile drape includes a plastic sheet and a pouch sealed to a first opening in the plastic sheet. The pouch is shaped to fit around a carriage that includes actuators and may be shaped to provide a loose form fit around the carriage. A stiffener is coupled to the pouch around a second opening in the pouch to provide an area that is less elastic than the remainder of the pouch. An instrument sterile adapter (ISA) may be coupled to the second opening in the pouch. The ISA may include a bottom plate and a top plate located on opposite sides of the pouch and joined together. Portions of the bottom plate may project through the top plate to provide a datum plane to receive a surgical instrument. The ISA may contain loose pins that depress sensing pins in the carriage when a surgical instrument is mounted.

Sterile barrier between surgical instrument and teleoperated actuator

A device to regulate tension of an actuation element for actuating movement of a surgical instrument includes an elastically deformable body configured to be coupled to the actuation element. The deformable body is configured to elastically deform in response to a state of slack occurring in the actuation element. As slack occurs in the actuation element, the deformable body is configured to divert a path of the actuation element to accommodate the slack so the path of the actuation element differs from an axis the actuation element follows prior to the actuation element developing slack. A force transmission mechanism for a teleoperated surgical instrument includes a chassis, an actuation input mechanism, an actuation element, and a tension regulator coupled to the actuation element to compensate for slack of the actuation element.

Tension regulator for actuation elements, and related remotely actuated instruments, systems, and methods

An oral insert includes a plurality of manifolds and a plurality of fluid nozzles. A manifold switch is coupled to the plurality of manifolds. The manifold switch is configured to select which of the plurality manifolds is to receive fluid from a fluid source.

Cleaning device for teeth

Described herein are systems and methods for providing personalized oral irrigation. One variation of a system for personalized oral irrigation comprises a fluid reservoir and a customized oral insert in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir. The oral insert comprises an arrangement of fluid openings positioned based on the individual oral or dental structures of a user's teeth to provide a customized fluid flow over the user's teeth. Also described herein are methods for generating an arrangement of fluid openings in a customized oral insert.

Systems and methods for personalized oral irrigation

An oral care system includes a fluid reservoir, a check intake valve, and a pump configured to cause fluid to be provided from fluid reservoir to an oral insert of the oral care system via the check intake valve. The fluid reservoir includes one or more fluid flow disrupters. The check intake valve is located at an offset from a center of the fluid reservoir.

Disrupting fluid flow in a fluid reservoir

An oral insert includes a plurality of bristles and a plurality of fluid nozzles. The plurality of bristles is located on an upper portion and a lower portion of a tray surface of the oral insert. The plurality of fluid nozzles is located at an inner portion and an outer portion of the tray surface. Fluid output by the plurality of fluid nozzles causes the plurality of bristles to contact surfaces of teeth associated with a user of the oral insert.

Oral health device for simultaneously brushing the surfaces of and cleaning the interproximal spaces between a user's teeth

A system includes first and second manipulating means, and a means for detecting mounting of an imaging means to the first manipulating means, a means for determining a first reference frame for the imaging means while the imaging means is mounted to the first manipulating means, a means for controlling a tool means relative to the first reference frame by maintaining a position and orientation of a distal portion of the tool means relative to the imaging means in the first reference frame based on a position and orientation of an input means relative to a display means, a means for detecting mounting of the imaging means to the second manipulating means, a means for determining a second reference frame for the imaging means while the imaging means is mounted to the second manipulating means, and a means for controlling the tool means relative to the second reference frame.

Inter-operative switching of tools in a robotic surgical system

An image capture unit has mounted in a frame: a first imaging assembly, a first circuit board, a second imaging assembly, and a second circuit board. The first imaging assembly is mounted on the first circuit board. The second imaging assembly is mounted on the second circuit board. A portion of the first circuit board and a portion of the second circuit board have a stacked configuration with the portion of the first circuit board being approximately parallel to the portion of the second circuit board. An end of another portion of the first circuit board is adjacent to an end of another portion of the second circuit board.

Compact stereoscopic image capture unit

Embodiments of a cannula seal are disclosed. In some embodiments, a cannula seal can include a base portion that engages with a cannula; and a seal portion integrally formed with the base portion that slidebly engages with an instrument shaft such that an insertion frictional force between the seal portion and the instrument shaft for insertion of the instrument shaft is symmetrical and substantially equal with a retraction frictional force.

Low friction cannula seals for minimally invasive robotic surgery

A sterile adapter for coupling a surgical instrument and a surgical instrument manipulator includes a bottom component and a coupling component. The bottom component includes a bottom component opening with a bottom lip having a locking mechanism. The coupling component is rotatably coupled to the bottom component. The coupling component includes an engagement feature that engages the surgical instrument manipulator. The coupling component further includes a locking mechanism opening that engages the locking mechanism when the engagement feature has not engaged the surgical instrument manipulator. The coupling component may include a retention tab that is aligned with the keyway to insert the coupling component into the bottom component opening and then misaligned with the keyway to retain the coupling component in the bottom component opening. A ramp may be provided on a leading edge of a pocket to facilitate engaging the coupling component with the surgical instrument manipulator.

Coupler to transfer motion to surgical instrument from teleoperated actuator

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Bruce M Schena