US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on May 26 for "Beacon-based systems and methods for generating medical facility metrics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,260, issued on May 26, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Beacon-based systems and methods for generating medical facility metrics" was invented by Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher R. Burns (San Jose, Calif.), Boris Foelsch (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Liron Leist (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beacon-based metrics system tracks, based on medical session data logged by a computer-assisted surgical system, events associated with the computer-assisted surgical system; determines that a user device that is not communicatively paired with the computer-assisted surgical syst...