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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2024
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ehsan Noohi Bezanjani, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Keith Watza, Boulder, CO (US);
Ashwinram Suresh, San Jose, CA (US);
Brandon D. Itkowitz, San Jose, CA (US);
Sean Duffy, San Jose, CA (US);
Sarthak Ghosh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
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.