US 12,354,739 B2
Beacon-based systems and methods for communicatively pairing a device with a medical system
Boris Foelsch, Palo Alto, CA (US); Mahdi Azizian, San Jose, CA (US); Alan S Bradley, Alameda, CA (US); Christopher R. Burns, San Jose, CA (US); Liron Leist, San Jose, CA (US); A. Jonathan McLeod, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Wen Pei Liu, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/777,520
Filed by Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
PCT Filed Nov. 24, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/062065
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/108437, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 3, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/940,794, filed on Nov. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/940,792, filed on Nov. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0057639 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G16H 40/63 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); H04W 12/50 (2021.01)
CPC G16H 40/63 (2018.01) [G16H 40/20 (2018.01); H04W 12/50 (2021.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An auxiliary device comprising:
a sensor configured to detect a first set of ultrasonic beacons including identification information associated with a robotic surgical system that is different from the auxiliary device; and
a processor configured to:
upon detection of the first set of ultrasonic beacons by the sensor of the auxiliary device, identify, based on the identification information included in the first set of ultrasonic beacons detected by the sensor of the auxiliary device, the robotic surgical system associated with the identification information included in the first set of ultrasonic beacons; and
communicatively pair the auxiliary device with the robotic surgical system associated with the identification information included in the first set of ultrasonic beacons.