U.S. Patent 7806891 was awarded to Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. on 2010-10-05 and describes a “Repositioning and reorientation of master/slave relationship in minimally invasive telesurgery.” This patent has been cited 450 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative medical technology patents in the field of instruments. The abstract states:

The invention provides robotic surgical systems which allow selectable independent repositioning of an input handle of a master controller and/or a surgical end effector without corresponding movement of the other. In some embodiments, independent repositioning is limited to translational degrees of freedom. In other embodiments, the system provides an input device adjacent a manipulator supporting the surgical instrument so that an assistant can reposition the instrument at the patient’s side. Link: U.S. Patent 7806891

This patent was originally filed on 2006-03-15 which gives it a processing time of 1665 days, compared to an average processing time of 1933 in the field. Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. has 692 total patents. The first named inventor is J. Kenneth Salisbury, Jr. of Mountain View, CA. The primary examiner was Henry M Johnson, III.

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