US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods for interventional procedure planning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,891, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for interventional procedure planning" was invented by Caitlin Q. Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.), Prashant Chopra (Foster City, Calif.), Dorin Panescu (San Jose, Calif.), Carol Reiley (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing an interventional procedure includes an interventional instrument and a control system. The control system includes a processor and a memory comprising machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause t...