US 12,426,969 B2
Systems and methods for selecting assignments for components of computer-assisted devices
Bram Gilbert Antoon Lambrecht, Redwood City, CA (US); and John Ryan Steger, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Appl. No. 18/007,021
Filed by INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
PCT Filed Jul. 27, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/043323
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 26, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/026472, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/057,863, filed on Jul. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0285096 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01); A61B 34/35 (2016.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 34/35 (2016.02) [A61B 34/25 (2016.02); A61B 90/06 (2016.02); A61B 90/08 (2016.02); A61B 2034/254 (2016.02); A61B 2034/256 (2016.02); A61B 2034/305 (2016.02); A61B 2090/066 (2016.02); A61B 2090/0803 (2016.02)] 29 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device management system comprising:
a device comprising a drive assembly, wherein the drive assembly is configured to removably and physically couple with an instrument when the instrument is mounted to the device, and wherein the drive assembly comprises a plurality of drive elements configured to cause movement of the instrument by driving a plurality of input elements of the instrument; and
a control system comprising one or more processors and a memory, the memory comprising programmed instructions adapted to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
selecting, for a first drive element of the plurality of drive elements, a first assignment from a plurality of assignments, the first assignment being available to at least two drive elements of the plurality of drive elements, wherein the first assignment is associated with a first pairing of the first drive element with a first input element of the plurality of input elements; and
causing the first drive element to adopt the first assignment.