ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,110, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Medical imaging systems and methods" was invented by Curtis W. Stith (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jeffrey M. DiCarlo (Austin, Texas) and Changmeng Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative system includes an image sensor comprising a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a fourth pixel. The system further includes a pixel-level broadband infrared cutoff filter that covers the second pixel and that is configured to prevent the second pixel from collecting infrared light having wavelengths included in a first ...