ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,759, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Teleoperated surgical system with scan based positioning" was invented by Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.), Brian D. Hoffman (Mountain View, Calif.), Ian E. McDowall (Woodside, Calif.), Paul W. Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.) and William C. Nowlin (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for use with a teleoperated surgical system, the method comprising: determining patient position information during a setup for a performance of the surgical procedure within an instan...