US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations, The Johns Hopkins University on April 21 for "Minimally invasive telesurgical systems with interactive user interfaces for 3D operative images" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,209, issued on April 21, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Minimally invasive telesurgical systems with interactive user interfaces for 3D operative images" was invented by Simon P. DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Christopher J. Hasser (Los Altos, Calif.), Russell H. Taylor (Severna Park, Md.), David Q. Larkin (Menlo Park, Calif.), Peter Kazanzides (Towson, Md.), Anton Deguet (Baltimore), Balazs Peter Vagvolgyi (Baltimore) and Joshua Leven (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A minimally invasive surgical system is disclosed including a process...