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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2013
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gregory K. Toth, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nitish Swarup, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas R. Nixon, Santa Clara, CA (US);
David Q. Larkin, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Steven J. Colton, Santa Clara, CA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Robotic devices, systems, and methods for use in robotic surgery and other robotic applications, and/or medical instrument devices, systems, and methods includes both a reusable processor and a limited-use robotic tool or medical treatment probe. A memory the limited-use component includes machine readable code with data and/or programming instructions to be implemented by the processor. Programming of the processor can be updated by shipping of new data once downloaded by the processor from a component, subsequent components can take advantage of the updated processor without repeated downloading.