US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Jan. 28 for "Physical medical element placement systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,884, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Physical medical element placement systems" was invented by Azad Shademan (Campbell, Calif.), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Proksch (San Jose, Calif.) and Pourya Shirazian (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary system is configured to obtain anatomical characteristic data representative of a characteristic associated with an anatomical surface to be covered by a physical medical element, the anatomical surface within an internal space of a patient and determine, based on the anatomical characteristic da...