ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,206, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for intraoperative segmentation" was invented by Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vincent Duindam (San Francisco), Caitlin Q. Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.), Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.) and Federico Barbagli (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a medical instrument including a sensing tool and comprises a processing unit including one or more processors. The processing unit is configured to receive data related to a patient anatomy from the sensing tool while the medical instrument trave...