Multi-user medical robotic system for collaboration or training in minimally invasive surgical procedures

US8527094B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Rajesh Kumar · Palo Alto, US
• Brian D. Hoffman · Somerville, US
• Giuseppe Maria Prisco · Pisa, IT
• David Q. Larkin · Menlo Park, US
• William C. Nowlin · Los Altos, US
• Frederic H. Moll · San Francisco, US
• Stephen J. Blumenkranz · Los Altos Hills, US
• Gunter D. Niemeyer · Mountain View, US
• J. Kenneth Salisbury, Jr. · Cambridge, US
• Yulun Wang · Midland School, US
• Modjtaba Ghodoussi · Lompoc, US
• Darrin Uecker · San Mateo, US
• James Wright · Lompoc, US
• Amante Mangaser · Goleta, US
• Ranjan Mauherjee · Simi Valley, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 27, 2005
• Grant date: Sep 3, 2013
• Expiry date: Oct 19, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S901/16
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

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.