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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2020
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Giuseppe Maria Prisco, Calci Pisa, IT;
Myriam J. Curet, Los Altos, CA (US);
Vincent Duindam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Catherine J. Mohr, Mountain View, CA (US);
Theodore W. Rogers, Alameda, CA (US);
Katherine D. Stoy, Mountain View, CA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system comprises a teleoperated manipulator, a manually operated surgical instrument coupled to the teleoperated manipulator, a teleoperated surgical instrument coupled to the teleoperated manipulator, and a shape sensor comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the shape sensor is coupled to a proximal end of a cannula, and the second portion of the shape sensor is coupled to the manually operated surgical instrument. The shape sensor is configured to provide a sensor input to a controller, and the sensor input comprises information representing an insertion depth of the manually operated surgical instrument into the cannula.