ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,135, issued on April 7, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for updating a graphical user interface based upon intraoperative imaging" was invented by Hui Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Cristian Bianchi (Capannori, Italy), Troy K. Adebar (San Jose, Calif.), Carlo Camporesi (Alameda, Calif.) and Sungwon Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more processors, a user display, and memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to obtain...