US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on March 18 for "Systems and methods for onscreen identification of instruments in a teleoperational medical system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,184, issued on March 18, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for onscreen identification of instruments in a teleoperational medical system" was invented by Brandon D. Itkowitz (San Jose, Calif.) and Paul W. Mohr (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises obtaining, for one or more medical instruments coupled to a teleoperational medical system, one or more corresponding medical instrument positions relative to a field of view of at least one imaging instrument coupled to the teleoperation medical system. The method also comprises initiating, for ...