US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on May 20 for "Systems for evaluating registerability of anatomic models and associated methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,209, issued on May 20, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems for evaluating registerability of anatomic models and associated methods" was invented by Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.), Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Federico Barbagli (San Francisco) and Pechin Chien Pau Lo (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and computer program products for planning medical procedures are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a system for planning a medical procedure includes a processor and memory operably coupled to the processor. The memory stores instruction...