US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Dec. 30 for "Increased resolution and dynamic range capture unit in a surgical instrument and method" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,746, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Increased resolution and dynamic range capture unit in a surgical instrument and method" was invented by Ian E. McDowall (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a minimally invasive surgical system, an image capture unit includes a prism assembly and sensor assembly. The prism assembly includes a beam splitter, while the sensor assembly includes coplanar image capture sensors. Each of the coplanar image capture sensors has a common front end optical structure, e.g., the optical structure distal to the image capture unit is the...