US Patent Issued to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for navigation based on ordered sensor records" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,798, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for navigation based on ordered sensor records" was invented by Tao Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Prashant Chopra (Foster City, Calif.), Vincent Duindam (San Francisco), Dorin Panescu (San Jose, Calif.) and Lei Fan (South Setauket, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computing system comprises receiving a first set of spatial information from an instrument positioned within an anatomic passageway. The first set of spatial information includes a plurality of spatial data records including position ...