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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2023
Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tao Zhao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Timothy D. Soper, San Jose, CA (US);
INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method comprises inserting, via a drive unit, a flexible elongate device into a passageway; recording, via one or more hardware processors communicatively coupled to a tracking system that is communicatively coupled to the drive unit, a first positional data point of the flexible elongate device at an insertion distance during the inserting; retracting, via the drive unit, the flexible elongate device; recording, via the one or more hardware processors, a second positional data point of the flexible elongate device at the insertion distance during the retracting; combining the first and second positional data points to create a third positional data point; and registering, via the one or more hardware processors, the third positional data point with a model of the passageway. The registering includes matching the third positional data point with a corresponding common passageway model data point.