US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 2 for "Surgical training model including a simulated human prostate and associated methods" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,424, issued on June 2, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Surgical training model including a simulated human prostate and associated methods" was invented by Richard H. Feins (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and John C. Alexander Jr. (Pinehurst, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical training model for simulating human prostate surgery may include a harvested porcine urethra. A harvested porcine vagina surrounds a portion of the harvested porcine urethra to define a simulated human prostate."

The patent was filed on July 10, 2023, under Application No. 18/349,194.

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