US 12,433,698 B2
Input handles for a surgeon console of a robotic surgical system
Paul Wilhelm Schnur, Pipersville, PA (US); Zachary S. Leonard, Raleigh, NC (US); and Nicholas J. Jardine, Holly Springs, NC (US)
Assigned to Asensus Surgical US, Inc., Durham, NC (US)
Filed by Asensus Surgical US, Inc., Durham, NC (US)
Filed on Oct. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/975,722.
Application 17/975,722 is a continuation of application No. 16/732,945, filed on Jan. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,517,381.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/787,304, filed on Jan. 1, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0064250 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 34/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 34/30 (2016.02) [A61B 34/25 (2016.02); A61B 34/70 (2016.02); A61B 2034/742 (2016.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a user interface for a surgical robotic system, comprising:
providing a user interface configured to generate signals for use by a surgical robotic system to control motion of a surgical instrument, the user interface comprising a base, a handle including a handle body moveable relative to the base and at least one paddle member pivotable relative to the handle body, and a joystick on the handle body;
positioning a surgical instrument on a robotic manipulator, the surgical instrument having an elongate shaft with an articulating distal portion and a jaw member on the elongate shaft;
positioning the surgical instrument through an incision such that the articulating distal portion is disposed in a body cavity;
grasping the handle body with a hand of a user and moving the handle body relative to the base to cause the robotic manipulator to move the shaft relative to the incision; and
while grasping the handle body with the hand of the user, moving the joystick relative to the handle body to cause articulation of the articulating distal portion in at least one of pitch or yaw relative to the elongate shaft; and
pivoting the paddle member relative to the handle to move the jaw member between first and second positions.