US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on March 3 for "Systems and methods for depth-based measurement in a three-dimensional view" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,306, issued on March 3, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for depth-based measurement in a three-dimensional view" was invented by Pourya Shirazian (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Daniel Proksch (San Jose, 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 receive endoscope calibration data, generate a virtual camera based on the calibration data, generate an endoscopic image, receive first and second marked p...