US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 14 for "Systems and methods for robotic medical system integration with external imaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,244, issued on July 14, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for robotic medical system integration with external imaging" was invented by Dorin Panescu (San Jose, Calif.), Prashant Chopra (Foster City, Calif.), Jonathan M. Sorger (Soda Springs, Calif.) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical robotic system and method of operating such comprises taking intraoperative external image data of a patient anatomy, and using that image data to generate a modeling adjustment for a control system of the medical robotic system (e.g., updating anatomic mode...