US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on March 3 for "Systems and methods for registration of patient anatomy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,449, issued on March 3, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for registration of patient anatomy" was invented by Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.) and Vincent Duindam (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may comprise a medical instrument, a tracking subsystem configured to receive position data from the medical instrument, and a control system communicatively coupled to the medical instrument and the tracking subsystem. The control system may be configured to perform operations including accessing a model of an anatomic structure of a patient and receiving a...