US Patent Issued to Vicarious Surgical on Sept. 8 for "System and method for determining depth perception in vivo in a surgical robotic system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,278, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Vicarious Surgical Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"System and method for determining depth perception in vivo in a surgical robotic system" was invented by Fabrizio Santini (Arlington, Mass.) and Sammy Khalifa (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for generating a depth map from image data in a surgical robotic system that employs a robotic subsystem having a camera assembly with first and second cameras for generating image data. The system and method generates based on the image data a plurality of depth maps, and then converts the plurality of depth maps into a single co...