ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,873, issued on May 13, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for connecting segmented structures" was invented by Shiyang Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Pechin Chien Pau Lo (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a display system and a control system communicatively coupled to the display system. The control system is configured to receive anatomic image data for an anatomic tree structure and generate an initial segmentation of the anatomic image data. The initial segmentation includes a trunk structure and a branche...