US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on April 15 for "Graphical user interface for displaying guidance information during an image-guided procedure" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,514, issued on April 15, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Graphical user interface for displaying guidance information during an image-guided procedure" was invented by Cristian Bianchi (Capannori, Italy), Vincent Duindam (San Francisco) and Oliver J. Wagner (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for displaying guidance information during an image-guided surgical procedure comprises receiving, by one or more hardware processors, data from a tracking system associated with an elongate device comprising a flexible body and calculating, by the one or more hardware processors...