US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Feb. 10 for "Scene perception systems and methods" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,159, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Scene perception systems and methods" was invented by Omid Mohareri (San Francisco), Simon P. DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.), Zhaoshuo Li (Baltimore), Amirreza Shaban (Atlanta) and Jean-Gabriel Simard (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scene perception systems and methods are described herein. In certain illustrative examples, a system combines data sets associated with imaging devices included in a dynamic multi-device architecture and uses the combined data sets to perceive a scene (e.g., a surgical scene) imaged by the imaging devic...