US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Feb. 17 for "Mixed reality systems and methods for indicating an extent of a field of view of an imaging device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,337, issued on Feb. 17, 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.), Huan Lac Phan (Belmont, Calif.) and Simon P. DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-assisted system includes a manipulator arm coupled to an active imaging device and one or more processors configured to perform a process comprising: automatically directing a display device to display a shape overlay overlaid with an exte...