US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on July 1 for "Systems and methods for providing surgical assistance based on operational context" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,095, issued on July 1, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing surgical assistance based on operational context" was invented by A. Jonathan McLeod (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maximilian H. Allan (San Francisco), 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 contextual assistance system identifies, during a surgical procedure, an operational context of the surgical procedure while a particular object is present at a surgical site depicted by a first version of an image. ...