US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on June 3 for "Physical medical element sizing systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,089, issued on June 3, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Physical medical element sizing systems and methods" was invented by Pourya Shirazian (Menlo Park, Calif.), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Proksch (San Jose, Calif.) and Azad Shademan (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary system is configured to instruct a display device to render a virtual medical element representative of a physical medical element over a target region within an image of an internal space of a patient, the target region depicting an anatomical surface to be covered by the physical medical...