US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for segmentation of anatomical structures for image-guided surgery" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,559, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for segmentation of anatomical structures for image-guided surgery" was invented by Junning Li (San Jose, Calif.), Pechin Chien Pau Lo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ahmed Taha (Hyattsville, Md.) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for image segmentation comprises receiving volumetric image data for an anatomical region and generating a first volumetric patch from the volumetric image data. The method also comprises generating a second volumetric patch from the first volumetric patch by weight...