US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 10 for "Systems and methods for detecting an orientation of medical instruments" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,560, issued on June 10, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for detecting an orientation of medical instruments" was invented by Jue Lin (Evanston, Ill.), Andrew J. Hazelton (San Carlos, Calif.) and Changmeng Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a position of a tool being received by a catheter, the method including capturing first images with the tool as the tool is being installed in the catheter. The method also includes generating training images for a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) by replicating the first images and appl...