US Patent Issued to Intuitive Surgical Operations on Sept. 30 for "Dynamic illumination for eye-tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,333, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intuitive Surgical Operations Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Dynamic illumination for eye-tracking" was invented by Heath Feather (Cupertino, Calif.), Randal P. Goldberg (San Mateo, Calif.) and Alexandre V. Matveev (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a controller coupled to a stereoscopic image viewer. The stereoscopic image viewer includes a viewing lens, an image capture unit, and a plurality of light sources. The image capture unit is configured to capture image frames. The controller receives the captured image frames. The controller is configured to swit...