Patents by Inventor TABISH MUSTAFA

TABISH MUSTAFA 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).

  • Controller assisted reconfiguration of an articulated instrument during movement into and out of an entry guide
    Patent number: 9084623
    Abstract: To perform a tool exchange in a medical robotic system, tool is retracted back into an entry guide from a deployed position and pose so that an assistant in the operating room may replace it with a different tool. While the tool is being retracted back towards the entry guide by user action, its configuration is changed to an entry pose while avoiding collisions with other objects so that it may fit in the entry guide. After the tool exchange is completed, a new tool is inserted in the entry guide and extended out of the guide by user action to the original position of the old tool prior to its retraction into the entry guide while the tool's controller assists the user by reconfiguring the new tool so as to resemble the original deployed pose of the old tool prior to its retraction into the entry guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Gomez, Nicola Diolaiti, David Q. Larkin, Paul E. Lilagan, Probal Mitra, Tabish Mustafa
  • Medical robotic system providing computer generated auxiliary views of a camera instrument for controlling the positioning and orienting of its tip
    Patent number: 8864652
    Abstract: A medical robotic system includes an entry guide with surgical tools and a camera extending out of its distal end. To supplement the view provided by an image captured by the camera, an auxiliary view including articulatable arms of the surgical tools and/or camera is generated from sensed or otherwise determined information about their positions and orientations and displayed on a display screen from the perspective of a specified viewing point. Intuitive control is provided to an operator with respect to the auxiliary view while the operator controls the positioning and orienting of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicola Diolaiti, David Q. Larkin, Daniel Gomez, Tabish Mustafa, Paul W. Mohr, Paul Lilagan
  • CONTROLLER ASSISTED RECONFIGURATION OF AN ARTICULATED INSTRUMENT DURING MOVEMENT INTO AND OUT OF AN ENTRY GUIDE
    Publication number: 20110040305
    Abstract: To perform a tool exchange in a medical robotic system, tool is retracted back into an entry guide from a deployed position and pose so that an assistant in the operating room may replace it with a different tool. While the tool is being retracted back towards the entry guide by user action, its configuration is changed to an entry pose while avoiding collisions with other objects so that it may fit in the entry guide. After the tool exchange is completed, a new tool is inserted in the entry guide and extended out of the guide by user action to the original position of the old tool prior to its retraction into the entry guide while the tool's controller assists the user by reconfiguring the new tool so as to resemble the original deployed pose of the old tool prior to its retraction into the entry guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Publication date: February 17, 2011
    Applicant: INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.
    Inventors: DANIEL GOMEZ, NICOLA DIOLAITI, DAVID Q. LARKIN, PAUL E. LILAGAN, PROBAL MITRA, TABISH MUSTAFA