US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for registering visual representations of a surgical space" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,578, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for registering visual representations of a surgical space" was invented by A. Jonathan McLeod (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maximilian H. Allan (San Francisco), Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Proksch (San Jose, Calif.) and Pourya Shirazian (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary image management system accesses semantic information regarding an anatomical object in a surgical space and registers, based at least in part on the semantic information regarding the anatomical object, a first datase...