The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2022
Applicant:
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey M. DiCarlo, Austin, TX (US);
Ian E. McDowall, Woodside, CA (US);
Jonathan M. Sorger, Belmont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/40 (2024.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 90/37 (2016.02); A61B 1/00011 (2013.01); A61B 6/4057 (2013.01); A61B 34/30 (2016.02); A61B 2090/306 (2016.02); A61B 2090/309 (2016.02); A61B 2090/371 (2016.02); A61B 2090/373 (2016.02);
Abstract
An illustrative surgical system may access a plurality of images captured outside a structure within a patient; detect a difference between spectral reflectances of scenes captured in the plurality of images; and identify, based on the detected difference between the spectral reflectances of the scenes captured in the plurality of images, pixels in at least one of the plurality of images that correspond to structure tissue of the structure.