US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Oct. 14 for "Systems and methods for projecting an endoscopic image to a three-dimensional volume" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,290, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for projecting an endoscopic image to a three-dimensional volume" was invented by Mahdi Azizian (San Jose, Calif.) and Simon P. DiMaio (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises obtaining an endoscopic image dataset of a patient anatomy from an endoscopic imaging system and retrieving an anatomic model dataset of the patient anatomy obtained by an anatomic imaging system. The method also comprises mapping the endoscopic image dataset to the anatomic model dataset and displaying a first vantag...