US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Oct. 7 for "Method and system for enhanced image sensor timing" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,017, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Method and system for enhanced image sensor timing" was invented by David C. Shafer (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jeffrey M. DiCarlo (Austin, Texas), Ian E. McDowall (Woodside, Calif.) and Max J. Trejo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device may include an image sensor comprising a first pixel cell and a second pixel cell adjacent to the first pixel cell, a plurality of individual alternative light filters configured to filter non-visible light, one individual alternative light filter of the plurality of individual ...