ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,635, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Graphical user interface for planning a procedure" was invented by Bai Wang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Federico Barbagli (San Francisco), Energy Cruse II (Foster City, Calif.), Scott S. Ichikawa (Seattle), Pechin Chien Pau Lo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Oscar G. Salazar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Aaron B. Tinling (Chimacum, Wash.), Oliver J. Wagner (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planning workstation includes a display system and a user input device and is configured to display a plurality of intera...