US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on July 29 for "Systems and a method for directing an imaging device to detect fluorescence and for determining a lifetime of the fluorescence" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,797, issued on July 29, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and a method for directing an imaging device to detect fluorescence and for determining a lifetime of the fluorescence" was invented by Alexander L. Antaris (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Jeffrey M. DiCarlo (Austin, Texas), Ian E. McDowall (Woodside, Calif.) and Jonathan M. Sorger (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary fluorescence imaging control system may direct, during a surgical procedure performed with a computer-assisted surgical system, an illumination source included in the computer-assisted surgical syste...