US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 5 for "System and method for specular reflection detection and reduction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,749, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for specular reflection detection and reduction" was invented by Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.) and Jonathan Sorger (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of specular reflection detection and reduction includes a processing unit including one or more processors and an imaging unit coupled to the processing unit. The imaging unit includes one or more first illuminators for providing illumination of a region of interest, one or more first detectors for detecting reflections of the illumination,...