US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on March 24 for "Systems and methods for integrating intraoperative image data with minimally invasive medical techniques" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,478, issued on March 24, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for integrating intraoperative image data with minimally invasive medical techniques" was invented by Sungwon Yoon (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hui Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Troy K. Adebar (San Jose, Calif.), Cristian Bianchi (Capannori, Italy) and Carlo Camporesi (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may comprise a processor and a memory having computer readable instructions stored thereon. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the system to record shape data for an ins...