US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 29 for "Method and system for steerable medical device path definition and following during insertion and retraction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,780, issued on July 29, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Method and system for steerable medical device path definition and following during insertion and retraction" was invented by Caitlin Q. Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.), Amir Belson (Los Altos, Calif.), Kristoffer J. Donhowe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kenneth R. Krieg (Fremont, Calif.), Eric Storne (Menlo Park, Calif.), Thomas J. Yorkey (San Ramon, Calif.) and Jun Zhang (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may comprise storing a first waypoint corresponding to a first position of a tip of a steerable medical device including ...