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Pushkar Hingwe — 45 Patents

Intuitive Surgical: 43 patents #46 of 719Top 7%
HGHGST: 1 patents #1,167 of 1,677Top 70%
Los Altos, CA: #238 of 3,651 inventorsTop 7%
California: #9,570 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #64,393 of 4,157,543Top 2%
45 Patents All Time
Pushkar Hingwe has been granted 45 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intuitive Surgical. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in December 2025. Pushkar Hingwe ranks #64,393 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.5%). Patent records list Pushkar Hingwe in Los Altos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2016.peak 72009: 1 patents20092015: 1 patents2016: 7 patents20162017: 5 patents2018: 6 patents20182019: 3 patents2020: 6 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 4 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 6 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 45 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12508091 Systems and methods for switching control between multiple instrument arms Brandon D. Itkowitz 2025-12-30
12415284 Moveable display system Charles A. Sweeney, Scott Luke, Michael C. Waldo, Allen C. Thompson, Randal P. Goldberg +4 more 2025-09-16
12383357 System and method for patient-side instrument control Hsien-Hsin Liao, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Julie L. Berry 2025-08-12
12357306 System and method for variable velocity surgical instrument Matthew A. Wixey, Gabriel F. Brisson, William A. Burbank, Patrick Flanagan, David W. Weir +1 more 2025-07-15
12201390 Teleoperated surgical system with surgical instrument wear tracking Amy E. Kerdok, William C. Nowlin, David W. Robinson 2025-01-21
12185930 Method and apparatus for manipulating tissue Brandon D. Itkowitz 2025-01-07
12171517 Inter-operative switching of tools in a robotic surgical system Niels Smaby, Gregory W. Dachs, II, Nicola Diolaiti, Thomas R. Nixon, Bruce M. Schena +1 more 2024-12-24 $135,744,000
12053179 System and method for variable velocity instrument David W. Weir, Gabriel F. Brisson, William A. Burbank, Amir Chaghajerdi, Patrick Flanagan +3 more 2024-08-06 $488,222,000
11690689 Inter-operative switching of tools in a robotic surgical system Niels Smaby, Gregory W. Dachs, II, Nicola Diolaiti, Thomas R. Nixon, Bruce M. Schena +1 more 2023-07-04
11648072 System and method for patient-side instrument control Hsien-Hsin Liao, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Julie L. Berry 2023-05-16 $135,440,000
11382644 Sealing and cutting surgical instrument with advanced feedback loop Benjamin J. Schoettgen, David W. Robinson, Patrick Flanagan 2022-07-12 $96,346,000
11311347 Teleoperated surgical system with surgical instrument wear tracking Amy E. Kerdok, William C. Nowlin, David W. Robinson 2022-04-26 $252,589,000
11291442 System and method for variable velocity surgical instrument Matthew A. Wixey, Gabriel F. Brisson, William A. Burbank, Patrick Flanagan, David W. Weir +1 more 2022-04-05 $196,815,000
11213360 Systems and methods for utilizing augmented jacobian to control manipulator joint movement Arjang M. Hourtash, Nitish Swarup 2022-01-04 $305,285,000
10973519 System and method for variable velocity surgical instrument David W. Weir, Gabriel F. Brisson, William A. Burbank, Amir Chaghajerdi, Patrick Flanagan +3 more 2021-04-13 $74,962,000
10905507 Inter-operative switching of tools in a robotic surgical system Niels Smaby, Gregory W. Dachs, II, Nicola Diolaiti, Thomas R. Nixon, Bruce M. Schena +1 more 2021-02-02 $87,443,000
10806530 System and method for patient-side instrument control Hsien-Hsin Liao, Julie L. Berry, Brandon D. Itkowitz 2020-10-20 $78,908,000
10799306 Reconfigurable end effector architecture David W. Robinson, Gabriel F. Brisson, Amir Chaghajerdi, Donald F. Wilson, Jr. 2020-10-13 $255,823,000
10743953 Inter-operative switching of tools in a robotic surgical system Niels Smaby, Gregory W. Dachs, II, Nicola Diolaiti, Thomas R. Nixon, Bruce M. Schena +1 more 2020-08-18 $117,770,000
10707786 Systems and methods for motor torque compensation Amir Chaghajerdi 2020-07-07 $93,380,000
10682191 Systems and methods for commanded reconfiguration of a surgical manipulator using the null-space Arjang M. Hourtash, Paul W. Mohr, Paul Millman, Bruce M. Schena, Roman L. Devengenzo +1 more 2020-06-16 $53,781,000
10561470 Software configurable manipulator degrees of freedom Arjang M. Hourtash, Nicola Diolaiti, Niels Smaby, Nitish Swarup 2020-02-18 $360,737,000
10483881 Systems and methods for motor torque compensation Hsien-Hsin Liao, Niels Smaby, Gregory W. Dachs, II, Amir Chaghajerdi 2019-11-19 $96,198,000
10327855 Systems and methods for utilizing augmented Jacobian to control manipulator joint movement Arjang M. Hourtash, Nitish Swarup 2019-06-25 $57,730,000
10194997 Manipulator arm-to-patient collision avoidance using a null-space Arjang M. Hourtash, Bruce M. Schena, Roman L. Devengenzo 2019-02-05 $83,249,000