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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2019
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Arjang M. Hourtash, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christine E. Draper, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Caroline A. Edwards, Foster City, CA (US);
Michael Ikeda, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Erasmo Lopez Calleros, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-assisted medical system includes a robotic manipulator arm configured to support an instrument. The instrument includes an instrument shaft and jaws disposed at a distal end of the instrument shaft. The computer-assisted medical system further includes a controller coupled to the manipulator arm. The controller includes a computer processor and is configured to track a movement of the instrument along an insertion axis of the instrument, and coordinate a size of a jaw aperture defined by the jaws with the movement of the instrument along the insertion axis to reach a target aperture.
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