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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2021
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brandon D. Itkowitz, San Jose, CA (US);
Paul W. Mohr, Mountain View, CA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method comprises obtaining, for one or more medical instruments coupled to a teleoperational medical system, one or more corresponding medical instrument positions relative to a field of view of at least one imaging instrument coupled to the teleoperation medical system. The method also comprises initiating, for a selected medical instrument of the one or more medical instruments, generation of a corresponding indicator to a user. The corresponding indicator may be based on a position of the selected medical instrument relative to the field of view.