US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods of registration compensation in image guided surgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,297, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of registration compensation in image guided surgery" was invented by Federico Barbagli (San Francisco), Christopher R. Carlson (Belmont, Calif.), Caitlin Q. Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.), Vincent Duindam (San Francisco), Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computing system comprises receiving shape information for an elongate flexible portion of a medical instrument. The medical instrument includes a reference portion movably coup...