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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2022
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tao Zhao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vincent Duindam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Caitlin Q. Donhowe, Mountain View, CA (US);
Timothy D. Soper, San Jose, CA (US);
Federico Barbagli, San Francisco, CA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system comprises a medical instrument including a sensing tool and comprises a processing unit including one or more processors. The processing unit is configured to receive data related to a patient anatomy from the sensing tool while the medical instrument traverses the patient anatomy. The processing unit is further configured to construct an anatomic model of the patient anatomy from the data received from the sensing tool. The processing unit is further configured to generate an image of the anatomic model for display and register a position of the medical instrument to the anatomic model.