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Simon P. DiMaio

ISIntuitive Surgical: 117 patents #8 of 719Top 2%
The Johns Hopkins University: 1 patents #1,892 of 4,416Top 45%
California: #1,614 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #10,209 of 4,157,543Top 1%
118 Patents All Time

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Showing 76–100 of 118 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10737394 Synthetic representation of a surgical robot Brandon D. Itkowitz, Daniel J. Halabe, Christopher J. Hasser, Brian D. Hoffman, David Q. Larkin +4 more 2020-08-11
10675109 Ratcheting for master alignment of a teleoperated minimally-invasive surgical instrument Brandon D. Itkowitz, William C. Nowlin, Gunter D. Niemeyer, David S. Mintz 2020-06-09
10638953 Steerable flexible needle with embedded shape sensing Vincent Duindam, David Q. Larkin, Dorin Panescu, Giuseppe Maria Prisco 2020-05-05
10611033 Geometrically appropriate tool selection assistance for determined work site dimensions Brandon D. Itkowitz, Craig Gerbi, Theodore W. Rogers, Wenyi Zhao 2020-04-07
10543050 Method and system for hand presence detection in a minimally invasive surgical system Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul E. Lilagan, Tao Zhao 2020-01-28
10507066 Providing information of tools by filtering image areas adjacent to or on displayed images of the tools Brian D. Hoffman, Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul W. Mohr, David W. Robinson, Tao Zhao +1 more 2019-12-17
10410050 Method and system of hand segmentation and overlay using depth data Brandon D. Itkowitz, Tao Zhao 2019-09-10
10376321 Shape sensor systems for localizing movable targets Vincent Duindam, David Q. Larkin 2019-08-13
10278783 Ratcheting for master alignment of a teleoperated minimally invasive surgical instrument Brandon D. Itkowitz, William C. Nowlin, Gunter D. Niemeyer, David S. Mintz 2019-05-07
10282881 Rendering tool information as graphic overlays on displayed images of tools Brandon D. Itkowitz, Daniel J. Halabe, Christopher J. Hasser, Brian D. Hoffman, David Q. Larkin +4 more 2019-05-07
10283220 System and method for coordinated motion among heterogeneous devices Mahdi Azizian, Jonathan M. Sorger 2019-05-07
10258414 Methods and devices for table pose tracking using fudicial markers Patrick O'Grady, Tao Zhao, Christopher R. Burns, Jason Hemphill, Brian D. Hoffman +1 more 2019-04-16
10188470 Minimally invasive surgical instrument to provide needle-based therapy David W. Bailey 2019-01-29
10178368 Stereo imaging system with automatic disparity adjustment for displaying close range objects Wenyi Zhao, Catherine J. Mohr 2019-01-08
10137575 Synthetic representation of a surgical robot Brandon D. Itkowitz, Daniel J. Halabe, Christopher J. Hasser, Brian D. Hoffman, David Q. Larkin +4 more 2018-11-27
10127060 System and method for replay of data and events provided by heterogeneous devices Mahdi Azizian, Jonathan M. Sorger 2018-11-13
10089724 System and method for multi-resolution sharpness transport across color channels Wenyi Zhao, David D. Scott 2018-10-02
10008017 Rendering tool information as graphic overlays on displayed images of tools Brandon D. Itkowitz, Daniel J. Halabe, Tao Zhao, Christopher J. Hasser, Catherine J. Mohr +4 more 2018-06-26
9987751 Geometrically appropriate tool selection assistance for determined work site dimensions Brandon D. Itkowitz, Craig Gerbi, Theodore W. Rogers, Wenyi Zhao 2018-06-05
9931167 Minimally invasive surgical instrument to provide needle-based therapy David W. Bailey 2018-04-03
9901402 Method and apparatus for hand gesture control in a minimally invasive surgical system Brandon D. Itkowitz, Tao Zhao 2018-02-27
9895813 Force and torque sensing in a surgical robot setup arm Stephen J. Blumenkranz, Guiseppe Maria Prisco, Gregory W. Dachs, II, Hanifa Dostmohamed, Christopher J. Hasser +1 more 2018-02-20
9858475 Method and system of hand segmentation and overlay using depth data Brandon D. Itkowitz, Tao Zhao 2018-01-02
9814537 Ratcheting for master alignment of a teleoperated minimally invasive surgical instrument Brandon D. Itkowitz, William C. Nowlin, Gunter D. Niemeyer, David S. Mintz 2017-11-14
9795446 Systems and methods for interactive user interfaces for robotic minimally invasive surgical systems Christopher J. Hasser, Russell H. Taylor, David Q. Larkin, Peter Kazanzides, Anton Deguet +2 more 2017-10-24