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AssigneeIntuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
InventorsAnthony K. McGrogan, Jeffrey D. Brown, Thomas G. Cooper, Eugene F. Duval, Daniel H. Gomez, Robert E. Holop, Craig R. Ramstad
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A sterile drape, a surgical system with the drape, and a draping method are provided. In one embodiment, a sterile drape includes a plurality of drape pockets, each of the drape pockets including an exterior surface to be adjacent a sterile field for performing a surgical procedure and an interior surface to be adjacent a non-sterile instrument manipulator coupled to a manipulator arm of a robotic surgical system. The drape further includes a plurality of flexible membranes at a distal face of each of the drape pockets for interfacing between outputs of an instrument manipulator and inputs of a respective surgical instrument, and a rotatable seal adapted to couple a proximal opening of each of the drape pockets to a rotatable element at a distal end of the manipulator arm.
A surgical system comprising:
A method of draping a surgical system, the surgical system including a first manipulator and a plurality of second manipulators coupled to the first manipulator, the first manipulator being configured to move the plurality of second manipulators as a single unit, each one of the plurality of second manipulators being configured to drive a corresponding instrument, the method comprising:
A surgical system drape for a surgical system, the surgical system including a first manipulator and a plurality of second manipulators coupled to the first manipulator, the first manipulator being configured to move the plurality of second manipulators as a single unit, each one of the plurality of second manipulators is configured to drive a corresponding instrument, the surgical system drape comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.