ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,727, issued on July 8, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for filtering localization data" was invented by Caitlin Q. Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.) and Federico Barbagli (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a medical instrument configured for movement by a teleoperational assembly and a processing unit including one or more processors. The processing unit is configured to provide instructions to the teleoperational assembly to move the medical instrument within an anatomic passageway according to a commanded velocity profile, receive a set of spatia...