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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2020
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David W. Robinson, Los Altos, CA (US);
Thomas R. Nixon, San Jose, CA (US);
Michael Hanuschik, Mountain View, CA (US);
Randal P. Goldberg, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jason Hemphill, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David Q. Larkin, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Paul Millman, San Jose, CA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A user interface for a surgical system can include a display configured to output video images of a remote surgical site at which one or more electrosurgical instruments of the surgical system are deployed; and a graphical user interface configured to be output on the display with the video images. The graphical user interface may comprise a visual indication of a state of the one or more electrosurgical instruments that indicates a state of the one or more electrosurgical instruments being ready for activation to deliver energy or actively delivering energy.