US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on June 24 for "Devices, systems, and methods for maintaining a sterile surgical field" (California, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,781, issued on June 24, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for maintaining a sterile surgical field" was invented by John W. Zabinski (Fremont, Calif.), Russell Blanchard (San Jose, Calif.), Humphrey W. Chow (Cupertino, Calif.), Gary Ettinger (Cupertino, Calif.), Sarah Galvis (Pleasanton, Calif.), Stefan Geiger (Union City, Calif.), Craig Gotsill (San Francisco), Amy Kerdok (San Jose, Calif.), Justin Krom (Southington, Conn.) and Daryl Oshatz (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterile drape assembly may comprise a drape and a cable guide coupled ...