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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2013
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rajesh Kumar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brian David Hoffman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Giuseppe Maria Prisco, Calci, IT;
David Q. Larkin, Menlo Park, CA (US);
William C. Nowlin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Frederic H. Moll, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stephen J. Blumenkranz, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Gunter D. Niemeyer, Mountain View, CA (US);
J. Kenneth Salisbury, Jr., Mountain View, CA (US);
Yulun Wang, Goleta, CA (US);
Modjtaba Ghodoussi, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Darrin R. Uecker, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
James W. Wright, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Amante A. Mangaser, Goleta, CA (US);
Ranjan Mauherjee, East Lansing, CA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-user medical robotic system for collaboration or training in minimally invasive surgical procedures includes first and second master input devices, a first slave robotic mechanism, and at least one processor configured to generate a first slave command for the first slave robotic mechanism by switchably using one or both of a first command indicative of manipulation of the first master input device by a first user and a second command indicative of manipulation of the second master input device by a second user. To facilitate the collaboration or training, both first and second users communicate with each other through an audio system and see the minimally invasive surgery site on first and second displays respectively viewable by the first and second users.