US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for determining buckling and patient movement during a medical procedure" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,328, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for determining buckling and patient movement during a medical procedure" was invented by Troy K. Adebar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system comprises an elongate instrument and a control system. The control system is adapted to generate a first model of the elongate instrument and generate a second model of the elongate instrument based at least in part on a reference pose of the elongate instrument. The control system is further adapted to compare the first model with the second mod...