US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on March 24 for "User interface for connecting model structures and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,488, issued on March 24, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"User interface for connecting model structures and associated systems and methods" was invented by Bai Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shiyang Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Joy Janku (San Francisco), Sida Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Hui Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and computer program products for performing medical procedures are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a system for planning a medical procedure is configured to receive a three-dimensional (3D) model of an anatomic region of a pat...