US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for registering elongate devices to three-dimensional images in image-guided procedures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,224, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for registering elongate devices to three-dimensional images in image-guided procedures" was invented by Vincent Duindam (San Francisco), Federico Barbagli (San Francisco), Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system comprises an instrument comprising a position sensor and a radiopaque fiducial. The system further comprises a tracking system to receive position data from the sensor, and a processor coupled to the instrument and the tracking system....