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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2022
Verb Surgical Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yiming Xu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Juri Platonov, Munich, DE;
Bernhard Adolf Fuerst, Mountain View, CA (US);
Verb Surgical Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
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 receives a second image from the endoscope, the second image having the surgical instrument at a second location within the field of view of the endoscope, and matches the 3D model of the surgical instrument to the second image. The method estimates a distance between the first and second locations based on both matchings and one or more parameters of the endoscope.