US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on March 24 for "Hybrid simulation model for simulating medical procedures" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,475, issued on March 24, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Hybrid simulation model for simulating medical procedures" was invented by Prasad V. Upadrasta (San Jose, Calif.), Joey Chau (Cupertino, Calif.) and May Quo-Mei Liu (Hillsborough, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for simulating a medical procedure to be performed on a patient. Patient-specific data that is specific to the patient on whom the medical procedure is to be performed is received. A generic model is modified using the patient-specific data to generate a hybrid simulation model that is customized to th...