US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on April 21 for "Systems for image-based registration and associated methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,829, issued on April 21, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems for image-based registration and associated methods" was invented by Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin X. Pluckter (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Troy K. Adebar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and computer program products for performing a medical procedure are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a system for performing a medical procedure in an anatomic region includes a medical instrument configured to be inserted within the anatomic region, the medical instrument including an...