US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for identifying and facilitating an intended interaction with a target object in a surgical space" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,298, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for identifying and facilitating an intended interaction with a target object in a surgical space" was invented by Wen Pei Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Maximilian H. Allan (San Francisco), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.) and Azad Shademan (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary system includes a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor may be configured to execute the instructions to: detect an intent of a user of a computer-assisted surgical sys...