ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,203, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Conversion and transfer of real-time volumetric image data for a medical device" was invented by Hui Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Troy K. Adebar (San Jose, Calif.) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may perform operations including receiving data comprising a plurality of image frames sampled from a volume data set of an imaged anatomical region displayable on a monitor. The plurality of image frames may correspond to a plurality of volume data reconstruction images displayed on the monitor in a series of...