US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on May 26 for "Image-based seeding for registration and associated systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,088, issued on May 26, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Image-based seeding for registration and associated systems and methods" was invented by Kevin X. Pluckter (Santa Clara, Calif.), Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.) and Troy K. Adebar (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 performing a medical procedure includes a medical instrument configured to be inserted within an anatomic region and including an image capture device. The system ca...