Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Surgical cannulas and related systems and methods of identifying surgical cannulas
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Application No.: US16871805Application Date: 2020-05-11
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Publication No.: US11116601B2Publication Date: 2021-09-14
- Inventor: Brandon R. Garbus , Allen C. Thompson , Justin Krom
- Applicant: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
- Current Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Jones Robb, PLLC
- Main IPC: G06K19/06
- IPC: G06K19/06 ; A61B90/98 ; A61B34/30 ; A61B34/00 ; A61B34/35 ; A61B46/10 ; A61B17/34 ; G06K7/08 ; A61B90/90 ; A61B17/00

Abstract:
A method includes sensing magnet information at a plurality of magnet positions on a cannula and determining identification information for the cannula based on the magnet information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200268479A1 SURGICAL CANNULAS AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF IDENTIFYING SURGICAL CANNULAS Public/Granted day:2020-08-27
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