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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
May. 17, 2024
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 manually operated instrument, a reference fixture positioned in a fixed world reference frame, and a shape sensor coupled to the manually operated instrument. The shape sensor extends from the manually operated instrument to the reference fixture. The system further comprises a controller configured to receive, from the shape sensor, shape information for the manually operated instrument. The controller is further configured to determine a pose of the manually operated instrument in the fixed world reference frame based on the shape information for the manually operated instrument.