US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Oct. 27 for "Systems for enhanced registration of patient anatomy" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,269, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems for enhanced registration of patient anatomy" was invented by Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a medical instrument, a tracking system configured to monitor a position of the medical instrument, and a processor communicatively coupled to the medical instrument and the tracking system. The processor is configured to generate a plurality of model points of an anatomic structure of a patient, receive a set of measured points of a first portion of the anatomic structure of the patien...