US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on April 29 for "Anatomical scene visualization systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,153, issued on April 29, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Anatomical scene visualization systems and methods" was invented by Daniel Proksch (San Jose, Calif.), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.) and Pourya Shirazian (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative system may be configured to obtain a visual image of an anatomical scene that includes an imaging probe and to augment the visual image with a synthetic element that indicates, within the visual image, an area of the anatomical scene being imaged by the imaging probe. The synthetic element may include spatial markers. ...