US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on July 7 for "Display with folded optical path" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,933, issued on July 7, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Display with folded optical path" was invented by Ian E. McDowall (Woodside, Calif.), Randal P. Goldberg (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yu-Min Lee (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described in this document can be embodied in a viewing apparatus for a surgical device, the apparatus including a lens assembly including a first circular polarizer, a display device configured to present an image of a scene, a reflective surface oriented at an acute angle with respect to the display device such that light from the display...