Dawn K. Gifford

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Blacksburg, VA, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus to determine a shape of an optical fiber sensor
- Patent number 12,235,095
- Issue date Feb 25, 2025
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Optical fiber with microgratings for increased measurable strain range
- Patent number 12,235,138
- Issue date Feb 25, 2025
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus for determining shape parameter(s) using a se...
- Patent number 11,940,305
- Issue date Mar 26, 2024
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...
- Patent number 11,828,586
- Issue date Nov 28, 2023
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Force sensing in a distal region of an instrument including single-...
- Patent number 11,781,857
- Issue date Oct 10, 2023
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Optical fiber with microgratings for increased measurable strain range
- Patent number 11,761,797
- Issue date Sep 19, 2023
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Redundant core in multicore optical fiber for safety
- Patent number 11,624,870
- Issue date Apr 11, 2023
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Calculation of redundant bend in multi-core fiber for safety
- Patent number 11,555,692
- Issue date Jan 17, 2023
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Patrick Roye
- B25 - HAND TOOLS PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS MANIPULATORS
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus for determining shape parameter(s) using a se...
- Patent number 11,473,941
- Issue date Oct 18, 2022
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...
- Patent number 11,473,902
- Issue date Oct 18, 2022
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Force sensing in a distal region of an instrument including single-...
- Patent number 11,313,674
- Issue date Apr 26, 2022
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- G02 - OPTICS
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for motion compensation in interferometric sen...
- Patent number 11,193,751
- Issue date Dec 7, 2021
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus for determining shape parameter(s) using a se...
- Patent number 11,035,699
- Issue date Jun 15, 2021
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Redundant core in multicore optical fiber for safety
- Patent number 10,983,268
- Issue date Apr 20, 2021
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Calculation of redundant bend in multi-core fiber for safety
- Patent number 10,962,351
- Issue date Mar 30, 2021
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Patrick Roye
- B25 - HAND TOOLS PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS MANIPULATORS
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...
- Patent number 10,921,117
- Issue date Feb 16, 2021
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Registering measured optical fiber interferometric data with refere...
- Patent number 10,908,047
- Issue date Feb 2, 2021
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Force sensing in a distal region of an instrument including single-...
- Patent number 10,876,831
- Issue date Dec 29, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operation, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- G02 - OPTICS
Information Patent Grant
Shape sensing with multi-core fiber sensor
- Patent number 10,823,627
- Issue date Nov 3, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Eric E. Sanborn
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus for calibration for a fiber optic shape sensor
- Patent number 10,775,157
- Issue date Sep 15, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...
- Patent number 10,739,129
- Issue date Aug 11, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Registering measured optical fiber interferometric data with refere...
- Patent number 10,732,075
- Issue date Aug 4, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...
- Patent number 10,551,173
- Issue date Feb 4, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Redundant core in multicore optical fiber for safety
- Patent number 10,545,283
- Issue date Jan 28, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G02 - OPTICS
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...
- Patent number 10,378,885
- Issue date Aug 13, 2019
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Force sensing in a distal region of an instrument including single-...
- Patent number 10,378,883
- Issue date Aug 13, 2019
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Grant
Dissimilar cores in multicore optical fiber for strain and temperat...
- Patent number 10,132,614
- Issue date Nov 20, 2018
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark Froggatt
- G02 - OPTICS
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for motion compensation in interferometric sen...
- Patent number 10,054,420
- Issue date Aug 21, 2018
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for compensating for a time-varying disturbanc...
- Patent number 9,841,269
- Issue date Dec 12, 2017
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Methods and apparatus to determine strain on an optical core based...
- Patent number 9,784,569
- Issue date Oct 10, 2017
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G02 - OPTICS

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SHAPE PARAMETER(S) USING A SE...
- Publication number 20240183691
- Publication date Jun 6, 2024
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A SHAPE OF AN OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR
- Publication number 20240044638
- Publication date Feb 8, 2024
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
AN OPTICAL FIBER WITH MICROGRATINGS FOR INCREASED MEASURABLE STRAIN...
- Publication number 20230349733
- Publication date Nov 2, 2023
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
REDUNDANT CORE IN MULTICORE OPTICAL FIBER FOR SAFETY
- Publication number 20230204852
- Publication date Jun 29, 2023
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. FROGGATT
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
DIRECTING LIGHT INTO AN OPTICAL FIBER
- Publication number 20230152568
- Publication date May 18, 2023
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- G02 - OPTICS
Information Patent Application
CALCULATION OF REDUNDANT BEND IN MULTI-CORE FIBER FOR SAFETY
- Publication number 20230122326
- Publication date Apr 20, 2023
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Patrick ROYE
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SHAPE PARAMETER(S) USING A SE...
- Publication number 20220412778
- Publication date Dec 29, 2022
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...
- Publication number 20220404144
- Publication date Dec 22, 2022
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
FORCE SENSING IN A DISTAL REGION OF AN INSTRUMENT INCLUDING SINGLE-...
- Publication number 20220214158
- Publication date Jul 7, 2022
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
FORCE SENSING IN A DISTAL REGION OF AN INSTRUMENT INCLUDING SINGLE-...
- Publication number 20210231432
- Publication date Jul 29, 2021
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
REDUNDANT CORE IN MULTICORE OPTICAL FIBER FOR SAFETY
- Publication number 20210199884
- Publication date Jul 1, 2021
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. FROGGATT
- G02 - OPTICS
Information Patent Application
CALCULATION OF REDUNDANT BEND IN MULTI-CORE FIBER FOR SAFETY
- Publication number 20210187752
- Publication date Jun 24, 2021
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Patrick Roye
- B25 - HAND TOOLS PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS MANIPULATORS
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SHAPE PARAMETER(S) USING A SE...
- Publication number 20210172768
- Publication date Jun 10, 2021
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...
- Publication number 20210131796
- Publication date May 6, 2021
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
REGISTERING MEASURED OPTICAL FIBER INTERFEROMETRIC DATA WITH REFERE...
- Publication number 20200378866
- Publication date Dec 3, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...
- Publication number 20200318951
- Publication date Oct 8, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
AN OPTICAL FIBER WITH MICROGRATINGS AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR M...
- Publication number 20200264018
- Publication date Aug 20, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...
- Publication number 20200141719
- Publication date May 7, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
REDUNDANT CORE IN MULTICORE OPTICAL FIBER FOR SAFETY
- Publication number 20200116923
- Publication date Apr 16, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. FROGGATT
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SHAPE PARAMETER(S) USING A SE...
- Publication number 20200025593
- Publication date Jan 23, 2020
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...
- Publication number 20190331479
- Publication date Oct 31, 2019
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. Froggatt
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
FORCE SENSING IN A DISTAL REGION OF AN INSTRUMENT INCLUDING SINGLE-...
- Publication number 20190331478
- Publication date Oct 31, 2019
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. Gifford
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
SHAPE SENSING WITH MULTI-CORE FIBER SENSOR
- Publication number 20190250050
- Publication date Aug 15, 2019
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Eric E. Sanborn
- G02 - OPTICS
Information Patent Application
CALCULATION OF REDUNDANT BEND IN MULTI-CORE FIBER FOR SAFETY
- Publication number 20190234727
- Publication date Aug 1, 2019
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Patrick ROYE
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATION FOR A FIBER OPTIC SHAPE SENSOR
- Publication number 20190234726
- Publication date Aug 1, 2019
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. GIFFORD
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
REDUNDANT CORE IN MULTICORE OPTICAL FIBER FOR SAFETY
- Publication number 20190094459
- Publication date Mar 28, 2019
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. FROGGATT
- G02 - OPTICS
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION COMPENSATION IN INTERFEROMETRIC SEN...
- Publication number 20180356203
- Publication date Dec 13, 2018
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. FROGGATT
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
FORCE SENSING IN A DISTAL REGION OF AN INSTRUMENT INCLUDING SINGLE-...
- Publication number 20180128599
- Publication date May 10, 2018
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Dawn K. GIFFORD
- G02 - OPTICS
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION COMPENSATION IN INTERFEROMETRIC SEN...
- Publication number 20180058838
- Publication date Mar 1, 2018
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. FROGGATT
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...
- Publication number 20170370705
- Publication date Dec 28, 2017
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Mark E. FROGGATT
- G02 - OPTICS

Dawn K. Gifford

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Methods and apparatus to determine a shape of an optical fiber sensor

Optical fiber with microgratings for increased measurable strain range

Methods and apparatus for determining shape parameter(s) using a se...

Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...

Force sensing in a distal region of an instrument including single-...

Optical fiber with microgratings for increased measurable strain range

Redundant core in multicore optical fiber for safety

Calculation of redundant bend in multi-core fiber for safety

Methods and apparatus for determining shape parameter(s) using a se...

Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...

Force sensing in a distal region of an instrument including single-...

Method and apparatus for motion compensation in interferometric sen...

Methods and apparatus for determining shape parameter(s) using a se...

Redundant core in multicore optical fiber for safety

Calculation of redundant bend in multi-core fiber for safety

Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...

Registering measured optical fiber interferometric data with refere...

Force sensing in a distal region of an instrument including single-...

Shape sensing with multi-core fiber sensor

Methods and apparatus for calibration for a fiber optic shape sensor

Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...

Registering measured optical fiber interferometric data with refere...

Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...

Redundant core in multicore optical fiber for safety

Methods and apparatus to determine a twist parameter and/or a bend...

Force sensing in a distal region of an instrument including single-...

Dissimilar cores in multicore optical fiber for strain and temperat...

Method and apparatus for motion compensation in interferometric sen...

Method and apparatus for compensating for a time-varying disturbanc...

Methods and apparatus to determine strain on an optical core based...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SHAPE PARAMETER(S) USING A SE...

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A SHAPE OF AN OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR

AN OPTICAL FIBER WITH MICROGRATINGS FOR INCREASED MEASURABLE STRAIN...

REDUNDANT CORE IN MULTICORE OPTICAL FIBER FOR SAFETY

DIRECTING LIGHT INTO AN OPTICAL FIBER

CALCULATION OF REDUNDANT BEND IN MULTI-CORE FIBER FOR SAFETY

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SHAPE PARAMETER(S) USING A SE...

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...

FORCE SENSING IN A DISTAL REGION OF AN INSTRUMENT INCLUDING SINGLE-...

FORCE SENSING IN A DISTAL REGION OF AN INSTRUMENT INCLUDING SINGLE-...

REDUNDANT CORE IN MULTICORE OPTICAL FIBER FOR SAFETY

CALCULATION OF REDUNDANT BEND IN MULTI-CORE FIBER FOR SAFETY

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SHAPE PARAMETER(S) USING A SE...

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...

REGISTERING MEASURED OPTICAL FIBER INTERFEROMETRIC DATA WITH REFERE...

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...

AN OPTICAL FIBER WITH MICROGRATINGS AND METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR M...

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...

REDUNDANT CORE IN MULTICORE OPTICAL FIBER FOR SAFETY

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING SHAPE PARAMETER(S) USING A SE...

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...

FORCE SENSING IN A DISTAL REGION OF AN INSTRUMENT INCLUDING SINGLE-...

SHAPE SENSING WITH MULTI-CORE FIBER SENSOR

CALCULATION OF REDUNDANT BEND IN MULTI-CORE FIBER FOR SAFETY

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CALIBRATION FOR A FIBER OPTIC SHAPE SENSOR

REDUNDANT CORE IN MULTICORE OPTICAL FIBER FOR SAFETY

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION COMPENSATION IN INTERFEROMETRIC SEN...

FORCE SENSING IN A DISTAL REGION OF AN INSTRUMENT INCLUDING SINGLE-...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOTION COMPENSATION IN INTERFEROMETRIC SEN...

METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE A TWIST PARAMETER AND/OR A BEND...