US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Nov. 11 for "Surgical system including a non-white light general illuminator" (California, Texas, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,194, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Surgical system including a non-white light general illuminator" was invented by Jeffrey DiCarlo (Austin, Texas), Stephen J. Blumenkranz (Los Altos, Calif.), Brian D. Hoffman (Mountain View, Calif.), Geoff Richmond (Las Vegas) and Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may configure an illuminator to illuminate a scene with non-white light. The illuminator includes a plurality of color component illumination sources. The non-white light is light other than white light and is generated by a combination of l...