US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on May 26 for "Systems and methods for medical procedures using optical coherence tomography sensing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,881, issued on May 26, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for medical procedures using optical coherence tomography sensing" was invented by Federico Barbagli (San Francisco) and Christopher R. Carlson (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing a medical procedure includes a flexible catheter with a lumen extending therethrough, an elongate instrument sized for passage through the lumen, an optical coherence tomographic sensor coupled to the elongate instrument, and a control system including one or more processors. The control system is configured ...