US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Aug. 18 for "Image viewing systems and methods using a black glass mirror" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,571, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Image viewing systems and methods using a black glass mirror" was invented by Ian E. McDowall (Woodside, Calif.), Heath Feather (Cupertino, Calif.), Randal P. Goldberg (San Mateo, Calif.) and Alexandre V. Matveev (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary image viewing system includes a display device configured to emit visible light representative of an image provided for display by the image viewing system, an infrared light source configured to emit infrared light, a viewing lens, and a black glass mirror provided...