Patents by Inventor Guiseppe Maria Prisco

Guiseppe Maria Prisco 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).

  • FLEXIBLE SURGICAL DEVICES
    Publication number: 20200397423
    Abstract: A surgical device comprises a tube including a proximal segment and a distal segment and a plurality of force transmission elements coupled to the tube. The force transmission elements are actuatable to alter the distal segment of the tube between a flexible state and a stiffened state. The device also comprises a plurality of routing members. Each routing member is coupled to a wall of the tube. The routing members are configured to receive and route the force transmission elements along a length of the tube while permitting the length of the tube to flex and compress. The device also comprises a decoupling structure that generates a reduced force transmitted to the proximal segment when an applied force is applied to the distal segment by the force transmission elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Katherine D. Stoy, Samuel Kwok Wai Au, Carolyn M. Fenech, Guiseppe Maria Prisco
  • Method and system to sense relative partial-pose information using a shape sensor
    Patent number: 8896847
    Abstract: A shape-sensing segment traverses through at least a portion of a kinematic chain of a tele-operated slave surgical instrument in a tele-operated minimally-invasive surgical system. The shape-sensing segment includes a pre-set perturbation. Shape information from the pre-set perturbation allows determination of relative partial-pose information for at least one link in the kinematic chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Vincent Duindam, Guiseppe Maria Prisco, Theodore W. Rogers, John Ryan Steger
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM TO SENSE RELATIVE PARTIAL-POSE INFORMATION USING A SHAPE SENSOR
    Publication number: 20130276557
    Abstract: A shape-sensing segment traverses through at least a portion of a kinematic chain of a tele-operated slave surgical instrument in a tele-operated minimally-invasive surgical system. The shape-sensing segment includes a pre-set perturbation. Shape information from the pre-set perturbation allows determination of relative partial-pose information for at least one link in the kinematic chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Vincent Duindam, Guiseppe Maria Prisco, Theodore W. Rogers, John Ryan Steger