Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Tao Zhao

305Patents
36h-index
246Co-inventors
93Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 4, 2004 → Nov 1, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8374723B2 Obtaining force information in a minimally invasive surgical procedure Physics 971 Active
US8594841B2 Visual force feedback in a minimally invasive surgical procedure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 335 Active
US8682489B2 Method and system for hand control of a teleoperated minimally invasive slave surgical instrument Human Necessities 290 Active
US8228368B2 Augmented stereoscopic visualization for a surgical robot using a captured fluorescence image and captured stereoscopic visible images Physics 280 Active
US9526587B2 Fiducial marker design and detection for locating surgical instrument in images Human Necessities 258 Active
US8830224B2 Efficient 3-D telestration for local robotic proctoring Electricity 249 Active
US9592095B2 Systems and methods for robotic medical system integration with external imaging Human Necessities 247 Active
US8184880B2 Robust sparse image matching for robotic surgery Physics 243 Active
US8706301B2 Obtaining force information in a minimally invasive surgical procedure Physics 235 Active
US8639000B2 Robust sparse image matching for robotic surgery Physics 227 Active
US10842575B2 Systems and methods for robotic medical system integration with external imaging Human Necessities 190 Active
US10507066B2 Providing information of tools by filtering image areas adjacent to or on displayed images of the tools Human Necessities 149 Active
US9918659B2 Shape sensor systems for tracking interventional instruments and mehods of use Human Necessities 130 Active
US9280038B1 Interchangeable mounting platform Performing Operations; Transporting 128 Active
US10008017B2 Rendering tool information as graphic overlays on displayed images of tools Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 127 Active
US9789608B2 Synthetic representation of a surgical robot Physics 108 Active
US8289390B2 Method and apparatus for total situational awareness and monitoring Electricity 100 Active
US10282881B2 Rendering tool information as graphic overlays on displayed images of tools Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 95 Active
US8996173B2 Method and apparatus for hand gesture control in a minimally invasive surgical system Physics 91 Active
US9284049B1 Unmanned aerial vehicle and operations thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 83 Active
US10706543B2 Systems and methods of registration for image-guided surgery Physics 78 Active
US9242714B2 Transformable aerial vehicle Performing Operations; Transporting 77 Active
US9321530B2 Unmanned aerial vehicle and operations thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 75 Active
US10885630B2 Systems and methods for segmentation of anatomical structures for image-guided surgery Physics 71 Active
US7929017B2 Method and apparatus for stereo, multi-camera tracking and RF and video track fusion Electricity 70 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.