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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2023
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vincent Duindam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simon P. DiMaio, San Carlos, CA (US);
David Q. Larkin, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Dorin Panescu, San Jose, CA (US);
Giuseppe Maria Prisco, Calci Pisa, IT;
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A surgical system includes a flexible steerable needle and a shape sensor for measuring the shape of the needle. The surgical system can be manual (e.g., laparoscopic), robotic, or any combination of the two. By directly measuring the shape of the needle, complex and potentially inaccurate modeling of the needle to determine trajectory and insertion depth can be avoided in favor of much more robust direct measurement and modeling of needle shape and/or pose.