US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on July 8 for "Alerting and mitigating divergence of anatomical feature locations from prior images to real-time interrogation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,980, issued on July 8, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Alerting and mitigating divergence of anatomical feature locations from prior images to real-time interrogation" was invented by Leah Muller (San Francisco), Paris A. Hajali Jr. (Tustin, Calif.) and Hui Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, methods, and computer program products for identifying and mitigating image-to-body divergence are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving sensor data from a medical device while the medical device is inserted within an anatomic region of a pa...