US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 16 for "Systems and methods for predicting keypoint movement for multiple surgical instruments using spatial-temporal graph attention modeling" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,741, issued on June 16, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for predicting keypoint movement for multiple surgical instruments using spatial-temporal graph attention modeling" was invented by Rui Guo (Suwanee, Ga.), Xi Liu (Peachtree Corners, Ga.), Ziheng Wang (Atlanta) and Anthony M. Jarc (Johns Creek, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting movement of a first plurality of keypoints of a first instrument comprises receiving, at a neural network model, a first location of the first plurality of keypoints and a first location of a second plurality of keypoint...