US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Dec. 9 for "Closed-loop control of illumination in an endoscopic camera system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,892, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Closed-loop control of illumination in an endoscopic camera system" was invented by Marc Levesque (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathan D. Halderman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brian D. Hoffman (Mountain View, Calif.), Derek C. Liou (Cupertino, Calif.) and Nariman Majdi Nasab (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination source may be coupled to an image capture device through a connector. A light sensor is placed downstream of the connector to measure the light received by the image capture device from the illumination source. The ligh...