US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for planning multiple interventional procedures" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,457, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for planning multiple interventional procedures" was invented by Caitlin Q. Donhowe (Mountain View, Calif.), Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Federico Barbagli (San Francisco), Vincent Duindam (San Francisco) and Timothy D. Soper (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of deploying an interventional instrument comprises identifying a target structure in an anatomic frame of reference. The method further comprises determining a target region in the anatomic frame of reference with respect to a current posit...