ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,735, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"In-vivo visualization systems" was invented by Vahid Saadat (Atherton, Calif.), Antony Jonathan Fields (San Francisco), Zachary J. Malchano (San Francisco), Chris Rothe (San Mateo, Calif.), Veerappan Swaminathan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jason Paul Watson (San Jose, Calif.) and Bryan Wylie (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In vivo visualization systems are described which facilitate tissue treatment by a user in utilizing real time visualized tissue images with generated three-dimensional models of the tissue region of interest, s...