US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Aug. 12 for "Configuring surgical system with surgical procedures atlas" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,358, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Configuring surgical system with surgical procedures atlas" was invented by Brent Tokarchuk (San Carlos, Calif.), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.), Joey Chau (Cupertino, Calif.), Simon P. DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Brian D. Hoffman (Mountain View, Calif.), Anthony M. Jarc (Duluth, Ga.), Henry C. Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Ian E. McDowall (Woodside, Calif.), William C. Nowlin (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), John D. Seaman II (San Jose, Calif.) and Jonathan M. Sorger (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical method is provided fo...