US Patent Issued to Verb Surgical on July 15 for "Method and system for estimating positional data in images" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,395, issued on July 15, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for estimating positional data in images" was invented by Yiming Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Juri Platonov (Munich) and Bernhard Adolf Fuerst (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a surgical system. The method includes receiving a first image from an endoscope, the first image having a surgical instrument at a first location within a field of view of the endoscope. The method matches a three-dimensional (3D) model of the surgical instrument to the first image. The method receives a second image receiv...