US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for telestration with spatial memory" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,186, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for telestration with spatial memory" was invented by Pourya Shirazian (Menlo Park, Calif.), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.) and Daniel Proksch (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary system is configured to detect user input directing a telestration element to be drawn within an image depicting a surface within a scene; render, based on depth data representative of a depth map for the scene and within a three dimensional (3D) image depicting the surface within the scene, the telestration element...