US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 29 for "Systems and methods for progressive registration" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,942, issued on July 29, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for progressive registration" was invented by Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives a first set of points corresponding to an anatomical feature. Each point in the first set of points represents a position in a first frame. The system receives a second set of points corresponding to the anatomical feature. Each point in the second set of points represents a position in a second frame. The system identifies a first subset of the first set of points and determines a first tra...