US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on April 21 for "Systems and methods for orientation detection and tool installation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,037, issued on April 21, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for orientation detection and tool installation" was invented by Andrew J. Hazelton (San Carlos, Calif.), Teresa G. Gadda (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Changmeng Liu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processor and a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to capture, via an image sensor of a tool installed at least partially within a catheter, a first image within a lumen...