US 12,004,912 B2
Mounting teleoperated surgical arms
Daniel H. Gomez, Los Gatos, CA (US); and John Ryan Steger, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/053,239
Filed by INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 26, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/029293
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 5, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/217094, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 14, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/669,690, filed on May 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0137635 A1, May 13, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 90/50 (2016.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01); A61B 34/35 (2016.01); A61B 90/57 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 90/50 (2016.02) [A61B 34/35 (2016.02); A61B 34/70 (2016.02); A61B 2090/571 (2016.02)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical device system, comprising:
an auxiliary rail comprising a frame and a flange extending from the frame; and
a surgical arm mounting device comprising a coupler and a surgical arm interface;
wherein the frame of the auxiliary rail is configured to be operatively coupled to a side rail of an operating table;
wherein the coupler of the surgical arm mounting device comprises a clamp mounted to the flange of the auxiliary rail;
wherein the clamp of the coupler has a first mechanical state in which the surgical arm mounting device is fixed to the auxiliary rail and a second mechanical state in which the surgical arm mounting device is supported by the auxiliary rail and translatable along the auxiliary rail; and
wherein the surgical arm interface receives a mating mounting device interface of a surgical arm.