US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 22 for "Medical devices, systems, and methods using eye gaze tracking" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,555, issued on July 22, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Medical devices, systems, and methods using eye gaze tracking" was invented by Anthony Michael Jarc (Johns Creek, Ga.), Henry C. Lin (San Jose, Calif.) and Jonathan Michael Sorger (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system comprises an eye tracking unit which includes an image display, an eye tracker, and a processor. The image display is configured to display to a user an image of a surgical field. The eye tracker is configured to measure data corresponding to eye gaze dynamics of the user during a procedure. The pr...