US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Feb. 10 for "Mixed reality systems and methods for indicating an extent of a field of view of an imaging device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,180, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Mixed reality systems and methods for indicating an extent of a field of view of an imaging device" was invented by Govinda Payyavula (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Cortney Jansen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Simon P. DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mixed reality presentation system determines a device-specific parameter characterizing an extent of a field of view of an active imaging device. The active imaging device captures imagery of an internal view of a body, and the determining of the device-specific parameter is based...