Patents by Inventor Roman Devengenzo
Roman Devengenzo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20180079074Abstract: In one variation, a pulley arrangement includes a base pulley portion rotatable within a driving plane, an adjustable pulley portion coupled to the base pulley portion wherein the adjustable pulley portion is rotatable relative to the base pulley portion within the driving plane, and a driving member including an end coupled to the adjustable pulley portion wherein at least a portion of the driving member is wrapped at least partially around the adjustable pulley portion. In another variation, a pulley arrangement includes a base pulley portion rotatable around an axis, an adjustable pulley portion coupled to the base pulley portion and movable in a first direction parallel to the axis, and a sliding block engaged with the adjustable pulley portion, wherein the sliding block moves in a second direction different from the first direction, in response to compression of the adjustable pulley portion against the base pulley portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Roman DEVENGENZO, Matthew Reagan WILLIAMS, Stephen John MORFEY, Ricardo Alfonso LEÓN, Andrew METZGER, Karen Shakespear KOENIG, Vijay SOUNDARARAJAN
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Patent number: 9919424Abstract: Example methods and systems are disclosed for performing automated tasks with a robot system. In one example, a robot system includes a robotic arm and an end-effector coupled to the robotic arm. The end-effector is actuatable among more than two states of actuation. The robot system also includes an analog control switch located on the end-effector. The analog control switch is actuatable among more than two switch positions. The analog control switch is configured such that actuation of the analog control switch among the more than two switch positions causes a corresponding actuation of the end-effector among the more than two states of actuation.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: X Development LLCInventor: Roman Devengenzo
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Publication number: 20170112580Abstract: Robotic and/or surgical devices, systems, and methods include kinematic linkage structures and associated control systems configured to facilitate preparation of the system for use. In some embodiments, actively driven joints will move a platform structure that supports multiple manipulators in response to movement of one of the manipulators, facilitating and expediting the arrangement of the overall system by moving those multiple manipulators as a unit into alignment with the workspace. Systems and methods are also provided to keep one, some, or all joints of the kinematic chain off a hardstop or physical range of motion limit associated with the joint or to otherwise maintain a desired range of motion for one, some, or all joints of the kinematic chain when exiting a set-up mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2015Publication date: April 27, 2017Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Paul G. Griffiths, Paul W. Mohr, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Thomas R. Nixon, Roman Devengenzo
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Patent number: 8998799Abstract: A robotic surgical system comprises a manipulator arm including a spring loaded input and a spring loaded plunger. The system also comprises a sterile adaptor. The sterile adaptor includes a housing, an electrical contact coupled to the housing, and a retractor plate assembly including a top retractor plate and a bottom retractor plate. The retractor plate assembly is movably disposed relative to the housing and adapted to engage the spring loaded plunger. The sterile adaptor also includes a disc captured between and rotatable relative to the top retractor plate and the bottom retractor plate. The disc has a first surface adapted to engage the spring loaded input and a second rotatable surface adapted to engage a surgical instrument in a sterile field.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Orban, III, S. Christopher Anderson, Roman Devengenzo, Bruce M. Schena, Michael Prindiville, Thomas G. Cooper, William A. Burbank
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Publication number: 20120247489Abstract: A sterile drape with integrated sterile adaptor, a telerobotic surgical system, and method of use are provided for draping portions of a telerobotic surgical system to maintain a sterile barrier between the sterile surgical field and the non-sterile robotic system while also providing an interface for transferring mechanical and electrical energy and signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Intuitive Surgical, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Orban, III, S. Christopher Anderson, Roman Devengenzo, Bruce Schena, Michael Prindiville, Thomas G. Cooper, William Burbank
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Patent number: 8216250Abstract: A sterile drape with integrated sterile adaptor, a telerobotic surgical system, and method of use are provided for draping portions of a telerobotic surgical system to maintain a sterile barrier between the sterile surgical field and the non-sterile robotic system while also providing an interface for transferring mechanical and electrical energy and signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Orban, III, S. Christopher Anderson, Roman Devengenzo, Bruce M. Schena, Michael Prindiville, Thomas G. Cooper, William A. Burbank
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Publication number: 20100174293Abstract: A sterile drape with integrated sterile adaptor, a telerobotic surgical system, and method of use are provided for draping portions of a telerobotic surgical system to maintain a sterile barrier between the sterile surgical field and the non-sterile robotic system while also providing an interface for transferring mechanical and electrical energy and signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2009Publication date: July 8, 2010Applicant: Intuitive Surgical, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Orban, III, S. Christopher Anderson, Roman Devengenzo, Bruce Schena, Michael Prindiville, Thomas G. Cooper, William Burbank
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Publication number: 20100163057Abstract: A sterile adaptor, a sterile drape with the integrated sterile adaptor, and a telerobotic surgical system including the sterile drape with a drape interface are provided. The adaptor, drape, and system allow for draping portions of a telerobotic surgical system to maintain a sterile barrier between the sterile surgical field and the non-sterile robotic system while also providing an interface for transferring mechanical and electrical energy and signals between a robotic arm and a surgical instrument in the sterile field.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2010Publication date: July 1, 2010Applicant: Intuitive Surgical, Inc.Inventors: S. Christopher Anderson, Joseph P. Orban, III, Bruce Schena, Thomas G. Cooper, Roman Devengenzo
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Publication number: 20100116082Abstract: A spatial linkage including an inboard gimbal plate that provides a ground for the spatial linkage, an outboard gimbal plate, and at least three links that couple the outboard gimbal plate to the inboard gimbal plate. Each link has a longitudinal axis and two pivotal couplings disposed at opposite ends of the longitudinal axis. Each link is pivotally coupled to the outboard gimbal plate at a first end of the longitudinal axis and pivotally coupled to the inboard gimbal plate at a second end of the longitudinal axis opposite the first end. The pivotal couplings allow the outboard gimbal plate to move relative to the inboard gimbal plate and preventing relative rotation between the outboard gimbal plate and the inboard gimbal plate. Counterweight is coupled to at least one of the links on the opposite side of the inboard gimbal plate from the outboard gimbal plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2010Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.Inventors: Bruce Michael Schena, Roman Devengenzo
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Patent number: 7699855Abstract: A sterile adaptor, a sterile drape with the integrated sterile adaptor, and a telerobotic surgical system including the sterile drape with a drape interface are provided. The adaptor, drape, and system allow for draping portions of a telerobotic surgical system to maintain a sterile barrier between the sterile surgical field and the non-sterile robotic system while also providing an interface for transferring mechanical and electrical energy and signals between a robotic arm and a surgical instrument in the sterile field.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2006Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: S. Christopher Anderson, Joseph Orban, III, Bruce Schena, Thomas G. Cooper, Roman Devengenzo
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Patent number: 7677129Abstract: A spatial linkage including an inboard gimbal plate that provides a ground for the spatial linkage, an outboard gimbal plate, and three links that couple the outboard gimbal plate to the inboard gimbal plate. Each link has a longitudinal axis and two pivotal couplings disposed at opposite ends of the longitudinal axis. Each link is pivotally coupled to the outboard gimbal plate at a first end of the longitudinal axis and pivotally coupled to the inboard gimbal plate at a second end of the longitudinal axis opposite the first end. The pivotal couplings allow the outboard gimbal plate to move relative to the inboard gimbal plate and preventing relative rotation between the outboard gimbal plate and the inboard gimbal plate.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Intuitive Surgical, Inc.Inventors: Bruce Michael Schena, Roman Devengenzo
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Patent number: 7666191Abstract: A sterile drape with integrated sterile adaptor, a telerobotic surgical system, and method of use are provided for draping portions of a telerobotic surgical system to maintain a sterile barrier between the sterile surgical field and the non-sterile robotic system while also providing an interface for transferring mechanical and electrical energy and signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2005Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Intuitive Surgical, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Orban, III, S. Christopher Anderson, Roman Devengenzo, Bruce Schena, Michael Prindiville, Thomas G Cooper, William Burbank
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Publication number: 20090084216Abstract: A spatial linkage including an inboard gimbal plate that provides a ground for the spatial linkage, an outboard gimbal plate, and three links that couple the outboard gimbal plate to the inboard gimbal plate. Each link has a longitudinal axis and two pivotal couplings disposed at opposite ends of the longitudinal axis. Each link is pivotally coupled to the outboard gimbal plate at a first end of the longitudinal axis and pivotally coupled to the inboard gimbal plate at a second end of the longitudinal axis opposite the first end. The pivotal couplings allow the outboard gimbal plate to move relative to the inboard gimbal plate and preventing relative rotation between the outboard gimbal plate and the inboard gimbal plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.Inventors: Bruce Michael Schena, Roman Devengenzo
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Publication number: 20070137372Abstract: In one embodiment, an insertion axis of a robotic manipulator is provided, the insertion axis including a base link operably coupled to a distal end of a manipulator arm, and a carriage link movably coupled to the base link along a lengthwise axis, the carriage link including a remote printed circuit assembly and transceiver for wirelessly communicating with a main printed circuit assembly external to the insertion axis. A robotic surgical system including such an insertion axis and a method for wireless communication in the system are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2006Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: Roman Devengenzo, Alan Loh
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Publication number: 20070137371Abstract: A telescopic insertion axis, a robotic surgical system including the telescopic insertion axis, and a method of instrument insertion are provided. In one embodiment, a telescopic insertion axis includes a base link operably coupled to a distal end of a manipulator arm, and a carriage link movably coupled to the base link along a lengthwise axis, the carriage link including an instrument interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2006Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: Roman Devengenzo, Thomas Cooper, Bruce Schena
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Publication number: 20070142969Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for setting, maintaining, and adjusting a cable tension in a telerobotic surgical system are provided. A cable tensioning apparatus includes, in one example, an arm, a pulley rotatably coupled to the arm, and a base operably coupled to the arm, the base including a translation mechanism for changing the position of the pulley to control a tension of a cable movable along the pulley. A termination block includes, in one example, a block including two cable pathways with each cable pathway having a retaining means for a ball fitting, and a support for moving a cable along the two cable pathways, the cable including a ball fitting in each of the cable pathways.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2006Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: Roman Devengenzo, Todd Solomon, Thomas Cooper
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Publication number: 20070119274Abstract: An instrument interface of a robotic manipulator and a surgical system including the instrument interface are provided. In one embodiment, the instrument interface includes a spring-loaded input for providing axial load and torque to a sterile adaptor capable of operably coupling an instrument. In another embodiment, a robotic surgical manipulator system includes a manipulator assembly, including a base link operably coupled to a distal end of a manipulator arm, and a carriage link movably coupled to the base link along a lengthwise axis, the carriage link including an integrated instrument interface. The system further includes an instrument operably coupled to the carriage link via the instrument interface, and a processor operably coupled to the manipulator assembly for sensing presence of the instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2006Publication date: May 31, 2007Inventors: Roman Devengenzo, Thomas Cooper, Joseph Orban, Bruce Schena, Alan Loh, S. Anderson
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Publication number: 20060235436Abstract: A sterile adaptor, a sterile drape with the integrated sterile adaptor, and a telerobotic surgical system including the sterile drape with a drape interface are provided. The adaptor, drape, and system allow for draping portions of a telerobotic surgical system to maintain a sterile barrier between the sterile surgical field and the non-sterile robotic system while also providing an interface for transferring mechanical and electrical energy and signals between a robotic arm and a surgical instrument in the sterile field.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2006Publication date: October 19, 2006Applicant: Intuitive Surgical INC.Inventors: S. Anderson, Joseph Orban, Bruce Schena, Thomas Cooper, Roman Devengenzo
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Publication number: 20060161138Abstract: A sterile drape with integrated sterile adaptor, a telerobotic surgical system, and method of use are provided for draping portions of a telerobotic surgical system to maintain a sterile barrier between the sterile surgical field and the non-sterile robotic system while also providing an interface for transferring mechanical and electrical energy and signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2005Publication date: July 20, 2006Applicant: Intuitive Surgical INC.Inventors: Joseph Orban, S. Christopher Anderson, Roman Devengenzo, Bruce Schena, Michael Prindiville, Thomas Cooper, William Burbank