US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for facilitating automated operation of a device in a surgical space" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,538, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for facilitating automated operation of a device in a surgical space" was invented by Wen Pei Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.) and Azad Shademan (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary system includes a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor may be configured to execute the instructions to obtain one or more operating characteristics of an instrument located in a surgical space; obtain one or more anatomical characteri...