Patent ID: 11896326
Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A  G

Claim 19:
20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein:
determining whether the table movement request should be allowed comprises:, determining that allowing the table to perform the table movement request would result in a first joint of the articulated arm to be at a range of motion limit; and
the method further comprises:
when the first joint is determined to be at the range of motion limit, prohibiting allowance of further table movement requests until the first joint is no longer at the range of motion limit, or, when the first joint is determined to be at the range of motion limit, restricting one or more types of further table movement requests that are allowed until the first joint is no longer at the range of motion limit.