ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,999, issued on July 8, was assigned to Verb Surgical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Graphical user guidance for a robotic surgical system" was invented by Eric Mark Johnson (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michal Levin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Anette Lia Freiin Von Kapri (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Graphical user guidance for a robotic surgical system is provided. In one embodiment, a graphical user interface for a robotic surgical system comprises a first region and a second region. The first region is used to display an endoscopic view of a surgical site inside a patient taken by an endoscopic camera of the robotic surg...