US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on March 24 for "Systems for planning and performing biopsy procedures and associated methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,476, issued on March 24, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems for planning and performing biopsy procedures and associated methods" was invented by Oliver J. Wagner (Mountain View, Calif.), Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Federico Barbagli (San Francisco) and Christopher R. Carlson (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are devices, systems, methods, and computer program products for planning and performing medical procedures. In some embodiments, a system for planning a medical procedure includes a processor and a memory operably coupled to the processor. The memor...