US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 16 for "Systems and methods related to registration for image guided surgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,744, issued on June 16, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods related to registration for image guided surgery" was invented by Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.) and Vincent Duindam (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is configured to perform operations includes accessing a set of model points of a model of an anatomic structure of a patient, the model points being associated with a model space. A set of measured points of the anatomic structure of the patient are collected, the measured points being associated with a patient space. The set of model points ar...