US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on May 27 for "Systems and methods for device-aware flexible tool registration" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,675, issued on May 27, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for device-aware flexible tool registration" was invented by Prashant Chopra (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system comprises a flexible device configured to be positioned at least partially within an anatomical passageway of a plurality of anatomical passageways within a patient anatomy. The medical system further comprises a memory device including computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions are for performing operations comprising determining a deformation forc...