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Nitish Swarup — 98 Patents

ISIntuitive Surgical: 93 patents #11 of 719Top 2%
ISIntuitive Surgical: 4 patents #31 of 88Top 40%
Sunnyvale, CA: #95 of 14,302 inventorsTop 1%
California: #2,324 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #15,019 of 4,157,543Top 1%
98 Patents All Time

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Showing 26–50 of 98 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11419687 System and method for integrated surgical table motion Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul G. Griffiths, Kamyar Ziaei 2022-08-23
11369445 Tool memory-based software upgrades for robotic surgery Gregory K. Toth, Thomas R. Nixon, David Q. Larkin, Steven J. Colton 2022-06-28
11298200 Techniques for operating a kinematic structure by manual motion of link coupled to the kinematic structure Paul G. Griffiths, Paul W. Mohr, Michael Costa, David Q. Larkin, Thomas G. Cooper +1 more 2022-04-12
11213360 Systems and methods for utilizing augmented jacobian to control manipulator joint movement Arjang M. Hourtash, Pushkar Hingwe 2022-01-04
11197731 Auxiliary image display and manipulation on a computer display in a medical robotic system Brian D. Hoffman, Rajesh Kumar, David Q. Larkin, Guanghua G. Zhang 2021-12-14
11179221 Medical device with active brake release control Paul G. Griffiths, Goran A. Lynch, Daniel N. Miller 2021-11-23
11129688 Surgical patient side cart with drive system and method of moving a patient side cart Paul G. Griffiths, Arjang M. Hourtash, Paul W. Mohr, David W. Robinson, John W. Zabinski +1 more 2021-09-28
11129684 System and method for maintaining a tool position and orientation Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul G. Griffiths, Goran A. Lynch 2021-09-28
11130231 System and method for instrument disturbance compensation Paul G. Griffiths, Goran A. Lynch, Daniel N. Miller 2021-09-28
11109924 System and methods for positioning a manipulator arm by clutching within a null-perpendicular space concurrent with null-space movement Arjang M. Hourtash 2021-09-07
11033345 Limited movement of a surgical mounting platform controlled by manual motion of robotic arms Paul G. Griffiths, Paul W. Mohr, Michael Costa, David Q. Larkin, Thomas G. Cooper 2021-06-15
10993772 System and method for integrated table motion Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul G. Griffiths, Jason Hemphill, Goran A. Lynch, Daniel N. Miller +2 more 2021-05-04
10973596 System and method for breakaway clutching in an articulated arm Daniel N. Miller, Michael Turner, Arjang M. Hourtash, Paul G. Griffiths, Paul W. Mohr 2021-04-13
10939969 Command shaping to dampen vibrations in mode transitions David W. Robinson 2021-03-09
10905507 Inter-operative switching of tools in a robotic surgical system Niels Smaby, Gregory W. Dachs, II, Nicola Diolaiti, Pushkar Hingwe, Thomas R. Nixon +1 more 2021-02-02
10881479 Surgical patient side cart with drive system and method of moving a patient side cart Paul G. Griffiths, Arjang M. Hourtash, Paul W. Mohr, David W. Robinson, John W. Zabinski +1 more 2021-01-05
10743953 Inter-operative switching of tools in a robotic surgical system Niels Smaby, Gregory W. Dachs, II, Nicola Diolaiti, Pushkar Hingwe, Thomas R. Nixon +1 more 2020-08-18
10717194 System and method for collision avoidance using virtual boundaries Paul G. Griffiths 2020-07-21
10687908 System and methods for positioning a manipulator arm by clutching within a null-perpendicular space concurrent with null-space movement Arjang M. Hourtash 2020-06-23
10646297 Movable surgical mounting platform controlled by manual motion of robotic arms Paul G. Griffiths, Paul W. Mohr, Michael Costa, David Q. Larkin, Thomas G. Cooper +1 more 2020-05-12
10617479 System and method for integrated surgical table motion Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul G. Griffiths, Kamyar Ziaei 2020-04-14
10610316 System and method for aligning with a reference target Paul G. Griffiths, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Michael Hanuschik, Thomas R. Nixon 2020-04-07
10575910 System and method for maintaining a tool position and orientation Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul G. Griffiths, Goran A. Lynch 2020-03-03
10561470 Software configurable manipulator degrees of freedom Arjang M. Hourtash, Nicola Diolaiti, Pushkar Hingwe, Niels Smaby 2020-02-18
10506920 Articulate and swappable endoscope for a surgical robot Christopher J. Hasser, Thomas G. Cooper, S. Christopher Anderson 2019-12-17