US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods of registration for image guided surgery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,995, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of registration for image guided surgery" was invented by Vincent Duindam (San Francisco), Federico Barbagli (San Francisco) and Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes collecting, from an optical fiber shape sensor extending within an instrument coupled to a teleoperational system, spatial information as a reference point of a proximal portion of the instrument is positioned at a plurality of locations along an insertion path and receiving, from a position sensor for a drive...