US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 2 for "Systems and methods for a differentiated interaction environment" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,424, issued on June 2, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for a differentiated interaction environment" was invented by Pourya Shirazian (Menlo Park, Calif.), Daniel Proksch (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik D. Wakefield (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a processor and a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the system to generate a current endoscopic video image of a surgical environment, capture an image from the current endoscopic video image, display ...