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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2024
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rui Guo, Suwanee, GA (US);
XI Liu, Peachtree Corners, GA (US);
Ziheng Wang, Atlanta, GA (US);
Anthony M. Jarc, Johns Creek, GA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for predicting movement of a first plurality of keypoints of a first instrument comprises receiving, at a neural network model, a first location of the first plurality of keypoints and a first location of a second plurality of keypoints of a second instrument. The method further comprises determining a trajectory for the first and second pluralities of keypoints by: generating, using an attention model of the neural network model, a first and second tool-level graph indicating a spatial-temporal relationship between the first and second pluralities of keypoints, respectively; and generating a scene-level graph based on the tool-level graphs. The scene-level graph indicates a spatial-temporal relationship between the first and second pluralities of keypoints. The method further comprises generating an output image based on the determined trajectory. The output image includes an output location of the first and second pluralities of keypoints.