ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,552, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Simultaneous white light and hyperspectral light imaging systems" was invented by Ian E. McDowall (Woodside, Calif.), Jeffrey M. DiCarlo (Austin, Texas), Brian D. Hoffman (Mountain View, Calif.) and William Jason Culman (Scotts Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a controller of a computer-assisted surgical system receives a visible image captured by an image capture unit of a surgical system, receives a plurality of hyperspectral images captured at a same waveband by the image capture unit of the surgical sy...