United States
US 12,697,176 B2
Systems and methods for data filtering of passageway sensor data
US 12,697,176 B2 is a granted patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dated 2026-08-04. Applicant: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. Its PDF downloads from this page without an account, up to 5 a day.
- Applicant
- Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Inventors
- Tao Zhao; Timothy D. Soper
- Publication date
- 2026-08-04
- Filing date
- 2023-12-13
- Document type
- B2 Granted patent
- Also written as
- US 12,697,176 B2 · US12697176 · 12697176
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 seco…
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