US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 22 for "Optical registration in a computer-aided system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,092, issued on July 22, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Optical registration in a computer-aided system" was invented by Brett A. Hinze (San Jose, Calif.), George D. Kamian (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Narayanan Ranganath (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and James R. Stefani (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of optical registration in a computer-aided system includes a control system. The control system is configured to provide a first registration indicator having a first indicator pose in a workspace; determine a first robotic device pose in a robotic device reference fram...