US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Feb. 17 for "Graphical user interface for catheter positioning and insertion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,133, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Graphical user interface for catheter positioning and insertion" was invented by Vincent Duindam (San Francisco) and Carol Reiley (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving a position of a tip portion of an instrument at a first location within a patient anatomy and determining a three-dimensional distance between the first location and a target location within the patient anatomy. The method further comprises displaying on a display system an image that includes a target location symbol and an inst...