US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for guided port placement selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,197, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for guided port placement selection" was invented by Robert G. Stricko III (San Francisco), Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.), Amy E. Kerdok (San Jose, Calif.), Brett M. Page (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jason A. Pile (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may comprise receiving a model of a patient, identifying a kinematic measure for a teleoperated system, and receiving a human factors constraint for use of the teleoperated system. The method may also comprise establishing a set of port placem...