ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,691, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for coordinating content presentation for computer-assisted systems" was invented by Govinda Payyavula (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ryan W. Shaw (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coordination system for coordinating content presentation associated with a session involves using a computer-assisted medical system, the coordination system including a session awareness engine and a content selection engine. The session awareness engine being configured to obtain data from the computer-assisted medical system, th...