US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for using registered fluoroscopic images in image-guided surgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,882, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for using registered fluoroscopic images in image-guided surgery" was invented by Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Federico Barbagli (San Francisco), Caitlin Q. Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.), Vincent Duindam (San Francisco), Michael D. Paris (San Francisco), Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.) and Oliver J. Wagner (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computing system comprises receiving a fluoroscopic image of a patient anatomy while a portion of a medical instrument is positione...