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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2023
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brent Tokarchuk, San Carlos, CA (US);
Mahdi Azizian, San Jose, CA (US);
Joey Chau, Cupertino, CA (US);
Simon P. Dimaio, San Carlos, CA (US);
Brian D. Hoffman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anthony M. Jarc, Duluth, GA (US);
Henry C. Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Ian E. Mcdowall, Woodside, CA (US);
William C. Nowlin, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
John D. Seaman, Ii, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Sorger, Belmont, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A surgical method is provided for use with a teleoperated surgical system (surgical system), the method comprising: recording surgical instrument kinematic information indicative of surgical instrument motion produced within the surgical system during the occurrence of the surgical procedure; determining respective kinematic signatures associated with respective surgical instrument motions; producing an information structure in a computer readable storage device that associates respective kinematic signatures with respective control signals; comparing, during a performance of the surgical procedure surgical instrument kinematic information during the performance with at least one respective kinematic signature; launching, during a performance of the surgical procedure an associated respective control signal in response to a match between surgical instrument kinematics during the performance and a respective kinematic signature.