Patent ID: 11882217
Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  A  G | IPC A  H

Claim 21:
22. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
prior to coupling a surgical tool to a surgical system, receiving, from a remote computing system and at a computing device of the surgical system, a first device key that is specific to the surgical tool;
storing, in a memory of the computing device of the surgical system, the first device key specific to the surgical tool coupled to the surgical system;
receiving, via a communication device of the computing device and from the surgical tool, an authentication message encrypted with a second device key;
authenticating, at the computing device, the authentication message based on decrypting the authentication message with the first device key;
receiving, at the computing device and from the surgical tool, tool data comprising an identifier of the surgical tool;
determining a status result based on the identifier and a surgical tool blacklist, the status result identifying a match between the identifier and a portion of the surgical tool blacklist, the surgical tool blacklist comprising identifiers and status data describing an allowed or disallow status of each surgical tool;
disabling at least one function of the surgical system based on the status result and
providing information about the status result to the remote computing system.