Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.

Keith Watza

Brandon D Itkowitz

Ashwinram Suresh

Ehsan Noohi Bezanjani

Sean Duffy

A method is provided to control actuation of a click event by a hand-actuated selector moveably mounted to a mount structure, comprising: in a first control state, imparting a maintaining force to the hand-actuated selector; in a second control state, imparting a haptic force to the hand-actuated selector that increases as a function of increasing displacement of the hand-actuated selector from the neutral displacement position; imparting a click event signal to cause an occurrence of the click event at a display system, in a third control state, imparting a haptic force to the hand-actuated selector that decreases in magnitude to a reduced magnitude.

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Campbell, CA, United States of America

Keith Watza