US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on May 27 for "Image capture device with reduced fogging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,959, issued on May 27, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Image capture device with reduced fogging" was invented by Jonathan Halderman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), John A Barton (San Jose, Calif.), Mathew Clopp (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rumen Deyanov (Fremont, Calif.), Anqi Fan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yves Lacroix (San Jose, Calif.), Derek C. Liou (Cupertino, Calif.) and Theodore W. Rogers (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing device comprises a first elongated body portion formed of a first material and a second elongated body portion coupled to a proximal end of the first body p...